Akhila

Girls' name

Feminine form of Akhil

Akhila has been given to 239 babies in the U.S. since 1989. 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 2002, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Akhila, 2023

1 in 663,000

Akhila over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Akhila: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Akhil

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Akhila means

Akhila is a feminine form of Akhil.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Akhila is used in Telugu and Malayalam.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Akhila → Akhil. The family’s meaning is “whole, complete”, recorded in the naming reference for Akhil.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Akhil.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 239 girls were recorded with the name Akhila between 1989 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2002; its best national rank was #5,673 in 2002.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Akhila?

Akhila had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only: 1 in 321,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 459,528 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Akhila 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Akhila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Akhilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Akhila was born before 2005 — so the typical Akhila is around 20 today.

Median birth year: 2005; About 20 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 62.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 91.6%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 239; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 62.3% of all recorded uses (149).

Is Akhila 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: —; 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 2002 (20)
Years since peak: 23; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 29.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,673; 2002

Spellings of Akhila

Akhila is not the most common spelling — Kaila is, with 23.1% against Akhila's 0.38%.

Kaila23.1%14,556
Akira12.4%7,817
Keila11.8%7,424
Makaila7.5%4,747
Aila6.8%4,268
Akilah4.8%3,012
Ashia3.9%2,439
Akia2.5%1,560

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 Akhila is used

Across 1910–2025, Akhila was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 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. Akhila has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Akhila around the world

Where Akhila 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
2003–2012
#871
in 2012

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

Akhila by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #5,673; 2002
Peak year: 2002; 20 that year
First recorded: 1989
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 239
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Akhila

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

Jalila Janila Danila Gelila Aleila Khaila Teuila Ameila Suhaila Khamila Alaila Ludmila Taila Dahlila Rutila Emila Nithila Aquila Nabila Khalila Xaila Anaila Azaila Alila

Sibling names for Akhila

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

For a sister

Iyana Lisbeth Vanesa Shakira Kaiya Shreya Delanie Magaly

For a brother

Dallin Zakary Keyon Kelton Donavan Jaylon Jaylin Destin

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