Akida
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Akida has been given to 57 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 1973, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 74% boys, 26% girls all-time.
Babies named Akida, 1978
1 in 453,000
Akida over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Akida over time
In 1979, Akida went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
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.
How common is Akida?
Akida had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1978, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1978
- 1 in 453,000
- 7 of 3,173,639 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 235,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1978
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 314,258 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Akida sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1978 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 314,258 children born in 1978 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Akida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Akidas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Akida was born before 1975 — so the typical Akida is around 50 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 42
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (42).
Is Akida 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 1973 (10)
- Years since peak
- 52
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.0% average annual change
Spellings of Akida
Akida is not the most common spelling — Aidan is, with 82.1% against Akida's 0.03%.
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.
Akida around the world
Where Akida 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 & Wales2013–2013#5,742in 2013
- South Australia2005–2005#775in 2005
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Akida by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Akida
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Akida
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.