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Akbar

#6,459 in 2025Boys' name

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Akbar has been given to 597 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #6,459 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1975, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Akbar, 2025

1 in 255,000

Akbar over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Akbar: meaning, origin, and history

Greatest

Arabic

What Akbar means

Akbar means “greatest”, associated with 'akbar.

Origin, language, and formation

Akbar is used in Indonesian, Maranao and Tausug. Its origins include Arabic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Akbar is pronounced /ˈakbar/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 597 boys were recorded with the name Akbar between 1960 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1975; its best national rank was #2,134 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,761 in 2020 to #6,459 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,511 in 2015 to #6,459 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 Akbar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,459
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Akbar 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Akbar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Akbars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Akbar was born before 1995 — so the typical Akbar is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
22.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
597
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 22.1% of all recorded uses (132).

Is Akbar 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
−794
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,302
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−948
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.81×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
61.9%
Peak was 1975 (21)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,134
1975

Spellings of Akbar

Akbar is not the most common spelling — Amar is, with 21.8% against Akbar's 2.6%.

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 Akbar is used

Across 1910–2025, Akbar was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 755,336 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Akbar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Akbar around the world

Where Akbar 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
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    2005–2013
    #6,391
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1966–1966
    #536
    in 1966

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Akbar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,459
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,302
Best rank ever
#2,134
1975
Peak year
1975
21 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
597
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Akbar

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

JabarJabbarSabarFinbarDunbarFinnbarBarAmbarAbduljabbarAliakbar

Sibling names for Akbar

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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