Akila
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births
- Peak · girls
- 1997 · 29 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 730since 1974
Akila over time
Rank among girls' names. Akila has never cracked the top 3,000 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 | #8,362 | 12 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 |
| 2017 | #4,811 | 28 |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 |
| 2015 | #6,036 | 21 |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 |
| 2013 | #10,235 | 10 |
| 2012 | #8,208 | 14 |
| 2011 | #9,723 | 11 |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 |
| 2009 | #8,058 | 15 |
| 2008 | #8,529 | 14 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 |
| 2006 | #6,592 | 19 |
| 2005 | #8,330 | 13 |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 |
| 2002 | #8,280 | 12 |
| 2001 | #5,364 | 21 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 |
| 1997 | #3,815 | 29 |
| 1996 | #4,739 | 21 |
| 1995 | #4,217 | 24 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 |
| 1993 | #4,100 | 25 |
| 1992 | #5,718 | 16 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 |
| 1985 | #5,077 | 14 |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 |
| 1977 | #4,235 | 16 |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Akila! It came in at #7,680, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1974, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Akila is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Georgia#1,072 · 1 in 8,554
Best ever in a state: #1,072 in Georgia, 1997.
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| Georgia | #1,072 | 5 | 1 in 8,554 |
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See more about Akila
- 2,760 spots since 2024 (#11,122 → #8,362)
- 1,439 spots since 2020 (#6,923 → #8,362)
- 2,326 spots since 2015 (#6,036 → #8,362)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 1997 at #3,815 (29 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 60,024 girls born in 1997 were named Akila (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 24.5% of all girls named Akila (179) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 67 | #4,235 (1977) | #5,783 |
| 1980s | 115 | #5,077 (1985) | #6,189 |
| 1990s | 179 | #3,815 (1997) | #5,783 |
| 2000s | 148 | #5,364 (2001) | #7,851 |
| 2010s | 152 | #4,811 (2017) | #8,017 |
| 2020s | 69 | #6,923 (2020) | #8,967 |
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.
Akila in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 60,024 of them was named Akila, which outranked 76.4% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,716Wesley30
- #3,716Xavier30
- #3,716Zoee30
- #3,815Akila29
- #3,815Aidee29
- #3,815Ajia29
- #3,815Alyissa29
- #3,897Adelle28
- #3,897Alaa28
- #3,897Alessa28
Tied with 81 names at #3,815; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.