Akai
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #9,616 · #1,753 for boys in 2025, 92 births
Given to boys 93.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 102 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,010since 1975
Akai over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,753 | 92 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,133 | 69 | |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | #1,668 | 102 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #1,804 | 90 |
| 2021 | — | #2,060 | 71 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,139 | 65 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,228 | 62 | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #2,796 | 43 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #2,566 | 49 |
| 2016 | — | #3,161 | 36 | |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | #3,684 | 29 |
| 2014 | — | #3,456 | 31 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,060 | 36 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,231 | 34 | |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #4,822 | 19 |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | #4,678 | 20 |
| 2009 | — | #3,919 | 26 | |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2007 | — | #5,661 | 15 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,675 | 19 | |
| 2005 | — | #6,634 | 11 | |
| 2004 | — | #6,138 | 12 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,877 | 12 | |
| 2002 | — | #6,522 | 10 | |
| 2001 | — | #9,243 | 6 | |
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| 1999 | — | #8,704 | 6 | |
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| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
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| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #6,523 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Akai! It came in at #4,309, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1976–1985, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Akai
- 380 spots since 2024 (#2,133 → #1,753)
- 386 spots since 2020 (#2,139 → #1,753)
- 1,931 spots since 2015 (#3,684 → #1,753)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2023 at #1,668 (102 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,770 boys born in 2023 were named Akai (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 18,566 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 48.4% of all boys named Akai (489) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1998, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 7 | #4,309 (1975) | #4,309 |
| 1980s | 12 | #5,332 (1986) | #5,928 |
| 1990s | 11 | #8,704 (1999) | #8,752 |
| 2000s | 132 | #3,919 (2009) | #5,912 |
| 2010s | 359 | #2,228 (2019) | #3,368 |
| 2020s | 489 | #1,668 (2023) | #1,926 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Akai in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 160,458 of them was named Akai, which outranked 45.4% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,989Zyaira11
- #8,989Zylani11
- #8,989Zylie11
- #9,616Akai10
- #9,616Aadhyareddy10
- #9,616Aairah10
- #9,616Aasha10
- #10,312Aadvika9
- #10,312Aakifah9
- #10,312Aava9
Tied with 695 names at #9,616; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 16,770 of them was named Akai, which outranked 88.3% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,662Kael103
- #1,662Kamron103
- #1,662Kodi103
- #1,668Akai102
- #1,668Alek102
- #1,668Atreyu102
- #1,668Brenton102
- #1,681Alton101
- #1,681Amadeus101
- #1,681Arlen101
Tied with 12 names at #1,668; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.