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Aker

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Aker has been given to 60 babies in the U.S. since 2015. 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 2022, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Aker, 2024

1 in 371,000

Aker over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aker: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aker means

Aker is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Aker is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 60 boys were recorded with the name Aker between 2015 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2022; its best national rank was #7,761 in 2023.

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 Aker?

Aker had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 371,000
9 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 191,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
257,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aker 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 2024 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 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aker. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Akers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aker was born before 2021 — so the typical Aker is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
75.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
60
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 75.0% of all recorded uses (45).

Is Aker 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2022 (10)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,761
2023

Spellings of Aker

Aker is not the most common spelling — Alex is, with 21.6% against Aker's <0.01%.

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.

Aker around the world

Where Aker 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.

  • South Australia
    2007–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Aker 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
#7,761
2023
Peak year
2022
10 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
60
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aker

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

AkenoAkeelEikerAkeimAkelaAkeilBaykerAkenRockerEkerLakerBrykerAkeenRykkerAnkerAikerStrikerDekerAkemEdkerRuckerIckerYkerEcker

Sibling names for Aker

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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