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Akiba

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Alternate transcription of Akiva

Akiba has been given to 92 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 1976, with 16 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.

Babies named Akiba, 1992

1 in 640,000

Akiba over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Akiba over time

In 1992, Akiba went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Akiba: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Akiva

Hebrew

What Akiba means

Akiba is a alternate transcription of Akiva.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Akiba is used in Hebrew.

Another recorded pronunciation is /a.ˈki.va/ for Akiba.

Origin, language, and formation

Akiba is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Akiba comes through Hebrew יַעֲקֹב and Hebrew יַעֲקֹב‬.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Akiva.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 87 girls were recorded with the name Akiba between 1970 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1976; its best national rank was #3,965 in 1976.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Akiba between 1975 and 1975. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1975; its best national rank was #5,476 in 1975.

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.

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How common is Akiba?

Akiba had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1992
1 in 640,000
6 of 3,839,369 births
Among girls only
1 in 307,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1992
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
443,542 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Akiba 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 1992 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 443,542 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Akiba. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Akibas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Akiba was born before 1976 — so the typical Akiba is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
86.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
87
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1970s — 86.2% of all recorded uses (75).

Is Akiba 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1976 (16)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,965
1976

Spellings of Akiba

Akiba is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 27.9% against Akiba'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.

Where Akiba is used

Across 1910–2025, Akiba was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,287,539 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

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

Akiba around the world

Where Akiba 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.

  • France
    2012–2012
    #6,814
    in 2012

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Akiba 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
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Best rank ever
#3,965
1976
Peak year
1976
16 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
87
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,476
1975
Peak year
1975
5 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
1975
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Akiba

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

TaibaAkimaAkireAkivaAkiahAkiyaAkitaAkinaAribaAkilaAkirraAkikoAkiliLabibaAkirahAkiyahSahibaAkiriaAkieraAkidaAdibaLaibaAkimiAkisha

Sibling names for Akiba

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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