Akasha
#5,099 for girls in 2025, 25 births
- Peak · girls
- 2003 · 132 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,433since 1976
Akasha over time
Rank among girls' names. Akasha has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,099 | 25 |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 |
| 2023 | #4,565 | 30 |
| 2022 | #4,793 | 28 |
| 2021 | #3,883 | 38 |
| 2020 | #4,005 | 35 |
| 2019 | #4,653 | 29 |
| 2018 | #3,677 | 41 |
| 2017 | #4,695 | 29 |
| 2016 | #4,990 | 27 |
| 2015 | #3,767 | 40 |
| 2014 | #4,892 | 28 |
| 2013 | #5,143 | 26 |
| 2012 | #3,988 | 38 |
| 2011 | #5,207 | 26 |
| 2010 | #3,203 | 51 |
| 2009 | #3,088 | 55 |
| 2008 | #3,120 | 54 |
| 2007 | #3,125 | 55 |
| 2006 | #2,757 | 64 |
| 2005 | #2,106 | 88 |
| 2004 | #2,117 | 85 |
| 2003 | #1,477 | 132 |
| 2002 | #2,228 | 74 |
| 2001 | #6,067 | 18 |
| 2000 | #5,312 | 21 |
| 1999 | #5,219 | 20 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 |
| 1996 | #1,881 | 77 |
| 1995 | #3,878 | 27 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 |
| 1992 | #5,267 | 18 |
| 1991 | #4,808 | 20 |
| 1990 | #6,465 | 13 |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 |
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| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 |
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| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Akasha! It came in at #9,284, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1978–1987, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Akasha is popular in 2003
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#637 · 1 in 3,391
- Louisiana#644 · 1 in 3,461
- Tennessee#687 · 1 in 4,343
- Georgia#883 · 1 in 5,527
- Indiana#921 · 1 in 6,481
Best ever in a state: #280 in Mississippi, 1996.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| South Carolina | #637 | 5 | 1 in 3,391 |
| Louisiana | #644 | 6 | 1 in 3,461 |
| Tennessee | #687 | 7 | 1 in 4,343 |
| Georgia | #883 | 9 | 1 in 5,527 |
| Indiana | #921 | 5 | 1 in 6,481 |
| Arizona | #1,074 | 5 | 1 in 6,743 |
| Ohio | #1,148 | 6 | 1 in 9,714 |
| New York | #1,204 | 11 | 1 in 8,919 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,270 | 5 | 1 in 11,303 |
| Illinois | #1,600 | 5 | 1 in 13,859 |
| Texas | #2,034 | 8 | 1 in 19,760 |
| California | #2,114 | 10 | 1 in 22,666 |
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See more about Akasha
- 863 spots since 2024 (#5,962 → #5,099)
- 1,094 spots since 2020 (#4,005 → #5,099)
- 1,332 spots since 2015 (#3,767 → #5,099)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 2003 at #1,477 (132 births)
- Births halved by 2006, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,842 girls born in 2003 were named Akasha (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 64,291 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 45.1% of all girls named Akasha (646) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 11 | #8,444 (1977) | #8,864 |
| 1980s | 34 | #6,277 (1988) | #8,631 |
| 1990s | 231 | #1,881 (1996) | #5,352 |
| 2000s | 646 | #1,477 (2003) | #3,140 |
| 2010s | 335 | #3,203 (2010) | #4,422 |
| 2020s | 176 | #3,883 (2021) | #4,718 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Akasha in 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 13,842 of them was named Akasha, which outranked 92.0% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,466Tehya133
- #1,466Yamilet133
- #1,466Yamileth133
- #1,477Akasha132
- #1,477Deisy132
- #1,477Jala132
- #1,477Kalea132
- #1,486Belinda131
- #1,486Chyanne131
- #1,486Dejah131
Tied with 8 names at #1,477; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.