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Akanni

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

To be special + to have

Akanni has been given to 24 babies in the U.S. since 2009. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 6 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 71% boys, 29% girls all-time.

Babies named Akanni, 2021

1 in 565,000

Akanni over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
0246818801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Akanni over time

In 2021, Akanni went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

20092021

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.

Akanni: meaning, origin, and history

To be special + to have

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Akanni means

Akanni means “to be special + to have”, associated with kàn and ní.

Origin, language, and formation

Akanni is used in Yoruba.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Yoruba, Akanni is pronounced /à.kã̀.nĩ́/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 boys were recorded with the name Akanni between 2009 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2009; its best national rank was #10,841 in 2021.

In the United States, 7 girls were recorded with the name Akanni between 2020 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2020; its best national rank was #12,192 in 2020.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Akanni?

Akanni had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 565,000
6 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Akanni sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Akanni. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Akannis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Akanni was born before 2012 — so the typical Akanni is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
17
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Choose a decade

2000s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Akanni 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2009 (6)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#10,841
2021

Spellings of Akanni

Akanni is not the most common spelling — Gianni is, with 63.6% against Akanni's 0.07%.

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.

Akanni by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,841
2021
Peak year
2009
6 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,192
2020
Peak year
2020
7 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Akanni

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Akanni

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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