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Akemi

#5,560 in 2025Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Akemi has been given to 932 babies in the U.S. since 1944. In 2025 it ranked #5,560 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 49 recorded.

Babies named Akemi, 2025

1 in 151,000

Akemi over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Akemi: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Akemi means

Akemi is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include bright, beautiful.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 927 girls were recorded with the name Akemi between 1944 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 49 in 2011; its best national rank was #3,268 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,089 in 2020 to #5,560 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,296 in 2015 to #5,560 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Akemi between 2006 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2006; its best national rank was #12,101 in 2006.

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.

How common is Akemi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 73,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,560
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Akemi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Akemi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Akemis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Akemi was born before 2010 — so the typical Akemi is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
915
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Choose a decade

2010s — 36.6% of all recorded uses (339).

Is Akemi 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
−1,266
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+529
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,264
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
44.9%
Peak was 2011 (49)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,268
2013

Spellings of Akemi

Akemi is not the most common spelling — Keri is, with 22.6% against Akemi's 0.65%.

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 Akemi is used

Across 1910–2025, Akemi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 165,854 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Akemi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Akemi around the world

Where Akemi 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
    2010–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • France
    2003–2023
    #6,791
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2016–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Akemi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,560
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 529
Best rank ever
#3,268
2013
Peak year
2011
49 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
927
Count in 2025
22

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,101
2006
Peak year
2006
5 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Akemi

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

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Sibling names for Akemi

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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