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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 354,404 of them was named Akiva, which outranked 14.1% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 20,189 of them was named Akiva, which outranked 88.2% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,663Riker95
- #1,663Savion95
- #1,663Zakari95
- #1,675Akiva94
- #1,675Aizen94
- #1,675Aziel94
- #1,675Dashawn94
- #1,687Efren93
- #1,687Filip93
- #1,687Fischer93
Tied with 11 names at #1,675; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.