Akili
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #13,592 · #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
Given to boys 64.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1975 · 18 births
- Debut · boys
- 15 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 461since 1972
Akili 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 | — | #9,714 | 7 | |
| 2024 | — | #9,894 | 7 | |
| 2023 | — | #12,239 | 5 | |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | — | |
| 2020 | — | #8,067 | 9 | |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | — | #7,136 | 11 | |
| 2017 | — | #8,140 | 9 | |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 | #9,664 | 7 |
| 2015 | — | #8,744 | 8 | |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | — | |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | — | |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | #8,803 | 8 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #8,520 | 14 | #6,262 | 13 |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #7,640 | 9 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | #5,558 | 13 |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #5,395 | 13 |
| 2001 | #8,758 | 11 | #5,142 | 14 |
| 2000 | #6,487 | 16 | #3,640 | 22 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | #3,103 | 26 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 | #4,650 | 14 |
| 1997 | #7,283 | 12 | #5,288 | 11 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | #4,878 | 12 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #4,290 | 14 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | — | #5,521 | 9 | |
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| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
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| 1984 | — | #4,552 | 8 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,907 | 7 | |
| 1982 | — | #4,593 | 8 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,509 | 8 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,357 | 12 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,857 | 9 | |
| 1977 | — | #4,164 | 8 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,471 | 10 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,361 | 18 | |
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,716 | 13 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,418 | 15 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Akili! It came in at #2,418, and was given to 15 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1985–1988, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Akili
- 180 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #9,714)
- 1,647 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #9,714)
- 970 spots since 2015 (#8,744 → #9,714)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 1975 at #2,361 (18 births)
- Births halved by 1977, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 73,852 boys born in 1999 were named Akili (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,361 in 1975, was only 1 in 86,742 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.9% of all boys named Akili (115) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2021, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 90 | #2,361 (1975) | #3,446 |
| 1980s | 43 | #4,509 (1981) | #5,171 |
| 1990s | 115 | #3,103 (1999) | #4,955 |
| 2000s | 113 | #3,640 (2000) | #7,270 |
| 2010s | 64 | #7,136 (2018) | #9,138 |
| 2020s | 36 | #8,067 (2020) | #9,781 |
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.
Akili in 2001
Top girls' names in 2001
Top boys' names in 2001
More about 2001
girls
1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 163,693 of them was named Akili, which outranked 51.3% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,196Zya12
- #8,196Zyan12
- #8,196Zyon12
- #8,758Akili11
- #8,758Aasha11
- #8,758Abbigal11
- #8,758Adaiah11
- #9,351Aanika10
- #9,351Abbigaile10
- #9,351Abbye10
Tied with 592 names at #8,758; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 138,777 of them was named Akili, which outranked 58.2% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,890Zarian15
- #4,890Zayquan15
- #4,890Zyler15
- #5,142Akili14
- #5,142Aaditya14
- #5,142Adreyan14
- #5,142Ahman14
- #5,390Aaric13
- #5,390Abdulahi13
- #5,390Abhi13
Tied with 247 names at #5,142; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.