Akua
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · girls
- 1976 · 15 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 554since 1971
Akua over time
Rank among girls' names. Akua has never cracked the top 4,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 |
| 2004 | #7,077 | 16 |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 |
| 1997 | #6,163 | 15 |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 |
| 1995 | #6,641 | 13 |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 |
| 1978 | #4,242 | 16 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 |
| 1976 | #4,154 | 15 |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
| 1973 | #4,586 | 12 |
| 1972 | #5,109 | 10 |
| 1971 | #5,543 | 9 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Akua! It came in at #5,543, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2021, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Akua
- 1,161 spots since 2024 (#8,946 → #10,107)
- 983 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #10,107)
- 6,312 spots since 2015 (#16,419 → #10,107)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1976 at #4,154 (15 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 95,741 girls born in 1978 were named Akua (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #4,154 in 1976, was only 1 in 97,673 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 23.5% of all girls named Akua (130) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 104 | #4,154 (1976) | #5,303 |
| 1980s | 87 | #5,885 (1981) | #7,610 |
| 1990s | 130 | #6,163 (1997) | #6,870 |
| 2000s | 101 | #7,077 (2004) | #10,653 |
| 2010s | 90 | #7,230 (2016) | #11,557 |
| 2020s | 42 | #8,946 (2024) | #10,967 |
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.
Akua in 1977
Top girls' names in 1977
More about 1977
girls
1,533,146 girls got a published name in 1977; 1 in 139,377 of them was named Akua, which outranked 51.2% of the 11,329 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,213Yesica12
- #5,213Yezenia12
- #5,213Yolunda12
- #5,532Akua11
- #5,532Abena11
- #5,532Adella11
- #5,532Ahisha11
- #5,888Aaryn10
- #5,888Abbigail10
- #5,888Adah10
Tied with 355 names at #5,532; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.