Akiva
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · #1,466 for boys in 2025, 121 births
Given to boys 95.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 145 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,794since 1961
Akiva over time
Rank among boys' names. Akiva has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,466 | 121 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,494 | 120 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #1,440 | 126 |
| 2022 | — | #1,566 | 113 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,583 | 109 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,262 | 145 | |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #1,886 | 79 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #1,823 | 83 |
| 2017 | — | #1,612 | 99 | |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #1,675 | 94 |
| 2015 | — | #2,019 | 71 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,730 | 87 | |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | #1,624 | 94 |
| 2012 | — | #1,891 | 76 | |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #1,886 | 74 |
| 2010 | — | #1,850 | 78 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,839 | 80 | |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #1,736 | 87 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #2,235 | 59 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #2,398 | 51 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #1,813 | 71 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #2,238 | 51 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #2,349 | 45 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #2,372 | 43 |
| 2001 | — | #1,912 | 57 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,425 | 39 | |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #1,995 | 48 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | #2,349 | 37 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #1,964 | 46 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | #2,254 | 36 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #2,444 | 31 |
| 1994 | — | #2,618 | 28 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,399 | 31 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,834 | 24 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,544 | 27 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,952 | 21 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,902 | 21 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,682 | 21 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,838 | 18 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,131 | 15 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,504 | 20 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,529 | 19 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,787 | 16 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,482 | 12 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,221 | 13 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,284 | 22 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,168 | 13 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,473 | 18 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,037 | 13 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,095 | 12 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,751 | 14 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,558 | 9 | |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 | #1,586 | 30 |
| 1972 | — | #3,344 | 9 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
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| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
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| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Akiva! It came in at #4,065, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1968, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Akiva
- 28 spots since 2024 (#1,494 → #1,466)
- 204 spots since 2020 (#1,262 → #1,466)
- 553 spots since 2015 (#2,019 → #1,466)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 2020 at #1,262 (145 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,904 boys born in 2020 were named Akiva (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,116 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 29.9% of all boys named Akiva (835) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11 | #3,935 (1969) | #4,000 |
| 1970s | 125 | #1,586 (1973) | #2,997 |
| 1980s | 177 | #2,284 (1980) | #2,836 |
| 1990s | 329 | #1,964 (1997) | #2,435 |
| 2000s | 583 | #1,736 (2008) | #2,132 |
| 2010s | 835 | #1,612 (2017) | #1,800 |
| 2020s | 734 | #1,262 (2020) | #1,469 |
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.
Akiva in 1995
Top girls' names in 1995
Top boys' names in 1995
More about 1995
girls
1,758,548 girls got a published name in 1995; 1 in 175,855 of them was named Akiva, which outranked 48.7% of the 15,753 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,514Zandria11
- #7,514Zitlaly11
- #7,514Zuleica11
- #8,079Akiva10
- #8,079Abbe10
- #8,079Adaisha10
- #8,079Adama10
- #8,766Aaisha9
- #8,766Aarti9
- #8,766Abbygayle9
Tied with 686 names at #8,079; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,903,701 boys got a published name in 1995; 1 in 61,410 of them was named Akiva, which outranked 76.3% of the 10,330 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,400Yanni32
- #2,400Yash32
- #2,400Zacary32
- #2,444Akiva31
- #2,444Ammar31
- #2,444Antonino31
- #2,444Ashwin31
- #2,500Abdallah30
- #2,500Adel30
- #2,500Adil30
Tied with 55 names at #2,444; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.