Akira
#983 for girls in 2025, 257 births · #2,539 for boys in 2025, 52 births
Given to girls 79.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2008 · 424 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,817since 1973
Akira 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #983 | 257 | #2,539 | 52 |
| 2024 | #952 | 274 | #2,502 | 54 |
| 2023 | #1,018 | 248 | #2,660 | 49 |
| 2022 | #1,259 | 190 | #2,830 | 45 |
| 2021 | #1,191 | 204 | #2,862 | 43 |
| 2020 | #1,152 | 205 | #2,689 | 46 |
| 2019 | #1,145 | 210 | #3,636 | 30 |
| 2018 | #1,135 | 215 | #2,708 | 45 |
| 2017 | #1,030 | 251 | #4,105 | 25 |
| 2016 | #1,012 | 261 | #4,199 | 24 |
| 2015 | #1,026 | 260 | #3,299 | 34 |
| 2014 | #1,092 | 233 | #3,154 | 35 |
| 2013 | #1,080 | 229 | #4,064 | 24 |
| 2012 | #958 | 265 | #3,807 | 27 |
| 2011 | #938 | 275 | #3,164 | 35 |
| 2010 | #835 | 322 | #3,239 | 34 |
| 2009 | #819 | 345 | #3,399 | 32 |
| 2008 | #707 | 424 | #3,646 | 29 |
| 2007 | #845 | 336 | #3,188 | 35 |
| 2006 | #970 | 270 | #2,979 | 37 |
| 2005 | #1,042 | 229 | #3,447 | 28 |
| 2004 | #1,144 | 199 | #2,452 | 45 |
| 2003 | #1,057 | 213 | #2,470 | 42 |
| 2002 | #923 | 242 | #2,295 | 45 |
| 2001 | #1,056 | 202 | #2,562 | 37 |
| 2000 | #1,203 | 165 | #2,525 | 37 |
| 1999 | #1,108 | 179 | #2,263 | 40 |
| 1998 | #1,065 | 183 | #2,199 | 41 |
| 1997 | #1,242 | 143 | #2,823 | 27 |
| 1996 | #1,656 | 92 | #2,441 | 32 |
| 1995 | #1,761 | 82 | #3,020 | 23 |
| 1994 | #2,353 | 55 | #3,596 | 18 |
| 1993 | #2,012 | 69 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | #2,239 | 59 | #3,105 | 21 |
| 1991 | #2,620 | 46 | #4,476 | 12 |
| 1990 | #2,523 | 47 | #3,467 | 17 |
| 1989 | #3,402 | 30 | #2,359 | 28 |
| 1988 | #4,015 | 22 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #2,852 | 34 | #2,725 | 19 |
| 1986 | #2,420 | 41 | #2,684 | 19 |
| 1985 | #3,084 | 29 | #2,710 | 18 |
| 1984 | #2,781 | 32 | #3,270 | 13 |
| 1983 | #2,022 | 50 | #2,493 | 19 |
| 1982 | #2,770 | 33 | #3,282 | 13 |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 | #3,030 | 14 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #5,427 | 12 | #4,403 | 8 |
| 1978 | #4,459 | 15 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | #3,203 | 12 |
| 1976 | — | — | ||
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | — | |
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| 1971 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,836 | 7 | |
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| 1967 | — | #3,966 | 5 | |
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| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
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| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
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| 1939 | — | #2,449 | 9 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,646 | 8 | |
| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,854 | 7 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,396 | 10 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,121 | 12 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,004 | 7 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,777 | 17 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,361 | 26 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,753 | 18 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,195 | 34 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,188 | 36 | |
| 1927 | — | #937 | 54 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,404 | 27 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,360 | 29 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,223 | 35 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,194 | 36 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,140 | 39 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,296 | 32 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,747 | 20 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,321 | 29 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,256 | 31 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,188 | 13 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,849 | 16 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,968 | 14 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,457 | 8 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,092 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Akira! It came in at #7,435, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1974, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Akira
- 31 spots since 2024 (#952 → #983)
- 169 spots since 2020 (#1,152 → #983)
- 43 spots since 2015 (#1,026 → #983)
- Biggest jump: 138 spots in 2008 (#845 → #707)
- Biggest drop: 134 spots in 2003 (#923 → #1,057)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2008 at #707 (424 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2006–2012
- Highest: 1 in 4,460 girls born in 2008 were named Akira (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,254 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 33.6% of all girls named Akira (2,625) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1981, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 50 | #4,459 (1978) | #6,029 |
| 1980s | 288 | #2,022 (1983) | #3,833 |
| 1990s | 955 | #1,065 (1998) | #1,858 |
| 2000s | 2,625 | #707 (2008) | #977 |
| 2010s | 2,521 | #835 (2010) | #1,025 |
| 2020s | 1,378 | #952 (2024) | #1,093 |
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.
Akira in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 5,325 of them was named Akira, which outranked 95.9% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 61,987 of them was named Akira, which outranked 76.6% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,332Vivek33
- #3,332Whitaker33
- #3,332Zacharie33
- #3,399Akira32
- #3,399Aidon32
- #3,399Alexandru32
- #3,399Ameir32
- #3,476Abubakar31
- #3,476Allister31
- #3,476Angello31
Tied with 76 names at #3,399; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.