Akbar
#6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
- Peak · boys
- 1975 · 21 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 597since 1960
Akbar over time
Rank among boys' names. Akbar has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,446 | 13 |
| 2024 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 2023 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #7,089 | 11 |
| 2020 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #7,157 | 11 |
| 2015 | #5,507 | 16 |
| 2014 | #8,130 | 9 |
| 2013 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | #5,675 | 15 |
| 2010 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #8,324 | 9 |
| 2007 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #6,904 | 11 |
| 2005 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #5,492 | 14 |
| 2003 | — | |
| 2002 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #4,302 | 18 |
| 2000 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #5,466 | 11 |
| 1997 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #4,476 | 12 |
| 1990 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #4,786 | 9 |
| 1987 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #3,601 | 11 |
| 1980 | #3,838 | 10 |
| 1979 | #2,777 | 16 |
| 1978 | #2,568 | 17 |
| 1977 | #2,361 | 19 |
| 1976 | #2,245 | 20 |
| 1975 | #2,134 | 21 |
| 1974 | #3,120 | 11 |
| 1973 | #3,445 | 9 |
| 1972 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #4,375 | 6 |
| 1970 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #3,062 | 9 |
| 1968 | #3,365 | 7 |
| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
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| 1965 | #3,244 | 7 |
| 1964 | #4,039 | 5 |
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| 1962 | #4,033 | 5 |
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| 1960 | #3,665 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Akbar! It came in at #3,665, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1964, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Akbar
- 787 spots since 2024 (#5,659 → #6,446)
- 2,293 spots since 2020 (#8,739 → #6,446)
- 939 spots since 2015 (#5,507 → #6,446)
- Debuted 1960
- Peaked 1975 at #2,134 (21 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 74,350 boys born in 1975 were named Akbar (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 131,390 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 22.1% of all boys named Akbar (132) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 44 | #3,062 (1969) | #3,625 |
| 1970s | 132 | #2,134 (1975) | #3,137 |
| 1980s | 77 | #3,601 (1981) | #4,734 |
| 1990s | 89 | #4,476 (1991) | #5,592 |
| 2000s | 86 | #4,302 (2001) | #8,046 |
| 2010s | 102 | #5,507 (2015) | #7,972 |
| 2020s | 67 | #5,659 (2024) | #7,369 |
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.
Akbar in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 96,579 of them was named Akbar, which outranked 62.0% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,473Tzvi18
- #2,473Vu18
- #2,473Walt18
- #2,568Akbar17
- #2,568Agapito17
- #2,568Aharon17
- #2,568Algernon17
- #2,669Alexi16
- #2,669Alvino16
- #2,669Ana16
Tied with 100 names at #2,568; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.