Akisha

Last seen for girls in 2005 at #16,462

Peak · girls
1977 · 45 births
Debut · girls
11 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
373
since 1973

Akisha over time

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Rank among girls' names. Akisha has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201976peak #2,091, 1977girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1997#10,8367
1996#10,5677
1995#8,7669
1994#11,7786
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1988#6,66611
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First appearance
1973

The first year at least five girls were named Akisha! It came in at #4,871, and was given to 11 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1990–1992, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Akisha
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2005
Rise & fade · girls
4 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1973
  • Peaked 1977 at #2,091 (45 births)
  • Births halved by 1981, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 34,070
  • Highest: 1 in 34,070 girls born in 1977 were named Akisha (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 369,568 girls born in 2005 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 48.5% of all girls named Akisha (181) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s181#2,091 (1977)#3,229
1980s147#2,749 (1980)#5,551
1990s40#8,766 (1995)#11,146
2000s5#16,462 (2005)#16,462

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.

Akisha in 1976

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#2,486
32 births · 1 in 45,784 girls

Top girls' names in 1976

  1. #1Jennifer59,473
  2. #2Amy31,339
  3. #3Melissa25,094
  4. #4Heather24,192
  5. #5Angela22,038
  6. #6Michelle19,550
  7. #7Kimberly18,962
  8. #8Jessica18,368
  9. #9Lisa17,346
  10. #10Amanda15,588
  11. #2,486Akisha32
More about 1976

girls

1,465,099 girls got a published name in 1976; 1 in 45,784 of them was named Akisha, which outranked 77.2% of the 10,913 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Akisha
  1. #2,439Tywanna33
  2. #2,439Vickey33
  3. #2,439Zoraida33
  4. #2,486Akisha32
  5. #2,486Agatha32
  6. #2,486Amyjo32
  7. #2,486Awilda32
  8. #2,546Aline31
  9. #2,546Anamaria31
  10. #2,546Arianna31

Tied with 59 names at #2,486; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1975
Risers
  1. 3,548Rhiannon#4,141#593
  2. 3,533Mackenzie#4,370#837
  3. 3,060Khalilah#3,774#714
  4. 1,663Kenisha#2,612#949
  5. 1,455Latoria#2,411#956
Fallers
  1. 821Nyree#926#1,747
  2. 668Syreeta#778#1,446
  3. 505Cher#994#1,499
  4. 398Kandice#957#1,355
  5. 370Racquel#973#1,343

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1976