Akela
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #9,894
Given to girls 94.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 27 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 620since 1975
Akela 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 | #11,932 | 7 | — | |
| 2024 | — | #9,894 | 7 | |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | — | |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | — | |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 | — | |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | — | |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | — | |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | — | |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | — | |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | — | |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | — | |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | — | |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | — | |
| 2007 | #8,098 | 15 | — | |
| 2006 | #5,709 | 23 | — | |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 | — | |
| 2004 | #6,768 | 17 | — | |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 | — | |
| 2002 | #6,129 | 18 | — | |
| 2001 | #6,067 | 18 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,705 | 19 | — | |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | — | |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,942 | 27 | — | |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 | — | |
| 1994 | #4,016 | 26 | — | |
| 1993 | #4,257 | 24 | — | |
| 1992 | #5,051 | 19 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,808 | 20 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,694 | 20 | — | |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | — | |
| 1988 | #6,666 | 11 | — | |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | — | |
| 1986 | #5,459 | 13 | — | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 | — | |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,945 | 14 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,427 | 12 | — | |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | — | |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | — | |
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| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Akela! It came in at #9,067, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1976, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Akela
- 3,526 spots since 2020 (#8,406 → #11,932)
- 2,451 spots since 2015 (#9,481 → #11,932)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 1996 at #3,942 (27 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 64,926 girls born in 1996 were named Akela (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.8% of all girls named Akela (197) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 32 | #5,427 (1979) | #7,349 |
| 1980s | 102 | #4,945 (1982) | #6,644 |
| 1990s | 197 | #3,942 (1996) | #5,193 |
| 2000s | 159 | #5,705 (2000) | #7,613 |
| 2010s | 91 | #8,146 (2018) | #11,063 |
| 2020s | 39 | #8,406 (2020) | #11,650 |
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.
Akela in 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
More about 1986
girls
1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 131,965 of them was named Akela, which outranked 57.5% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,188Yuki14
- #5,188Zana14
- #5,188Zarah14
- #5,459Akela13
- #5,459Adara13
- #5,459Addy13
- #5,459Alexanderia13
- #5,757Adreanna12
- #5,757Adrena12
- #5,757Adrienna12
Tied with 297 names at #5,459; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.