Akai
#1,753 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Akai has been given to 1,078 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #1,753 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 102 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.
Babies named Akai, 2025
1 in 36,000
Akai over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Akai over time
In 2025, Akai went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Akai?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 36,000
- 92 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 18,600
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,753
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 24,978 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Akai sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 24,978 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Akai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Akais were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Akai was born before 2019 — so the typical Akai is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 48.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,010
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 48.4% of all recorded uses (489).
Is Akai rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +381
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +386
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,934
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.17×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 90.2%
- Peak was 2023 (102)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.4% average annual change
Spellings of Akai
Akai is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 44.0% against Akai's 0.08%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Akai is used
Across 2016–2025, Akai was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 33,302 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 14,286
- 2Georgia1 in 20,000
- 3New York1 in 20,000
- 4Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
- 5Illinois1 in 33,333
- 6Indiana1 in 50,000
- 7North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 8Texas1 in 50,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Akai around the world
Where Akai ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2006–2025#3,256in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Akai by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Akai
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Akai
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.