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Akif

#12,076 in 2025Boys' name

To devote, through عَاكِف

Akif has been given to 152 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #12,076 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Akif, 2025

1 in 663,000

Akif over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Akif: meaning, origin, and history

To devote, through عَاكِف

Arabic

What Akif means

Akif belongs to the name family reached through Akif → عَاكِف. Its meaning is “to devote”.

Origin, language, and formation

Akif is used in Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Akif comes through Ottoman Turkish عاكف and Arabic عَاكِف.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include عَاكِف.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 152 boys were recorded with the name Akif between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2015; its best national rank was #7,076 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,646 in 2020 to #12,076 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,076 in 2015 to #12,076 in 2025.

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 Akif?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,076
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Akif 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 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Akif. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Akifs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Akif was born before 2013 — so the typical Akif is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
55.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
152
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 55.3% of all recorded uses (84).

Is Akif 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
−1,430
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,000
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
45.5%
Peak was 2015 (11)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,076
2015

Spellings of Akif

Akif is not the most common spelling — Amir is, with 22.5% against Akif's 0.06%.

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.

Akif around the world

Where Akif 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
    1996–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    1976–2025
    #4,199
    in 2025

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

Akif by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,076
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,430
Best rank ever
#7,076
2015
Peak year
2015
11 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
152
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Akif

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

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Sibling names for Akif

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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