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Akash

#4,401 in 2025Boys' name

Open space, sky

Akash has been given to 2,376 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #4,401 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 117 recorded.

Babies named Akash, 2025

1 in 144,000

Akash over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Akash: meaning, origin, and history

Open space, sky

Sanskrit

What Akash means

Akash means “open space, sky”.

Origin, language, and formation

Akash is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Akash comes through Sanskrit आकाश.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,376 boys were recorded with the name Akash between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 117 in 2002; its best national rank was #1,189 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,926 in 2020 to #4,401 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,686 in 2015 to #4,401 in 2025.

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 Akash?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,401
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Akash 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 2025 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Akash. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Akashs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Akash was born before 2003 — so the typical Akash is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,376
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 36.8% of all recorded uses (874).

Is Akash 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
−708
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,475
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,715
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.51×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.7%
Peak was 2002 (117)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,189
2002

Spellings of Akash

Akash is not the most common spelling — Cash is, with 25.9% against Akash's 2.2%.

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 Akash is used

Across 1910–2025, Akash was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 79,441 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Virginia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Florida1 in —

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. Akash has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Akash around the world

Where Akash 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2004–2004
    #438
    in 2004
  • France
    1997–2025
    #5,351
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1994–2009
    #473
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Akash

People whose public names include Akash, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Akash by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,401
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,475
Best rank ever
#1,189
2002
Peak year
2002
117 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,376
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Akash

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

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Names with a curve like Akash

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Akash, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Akash

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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