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Akiko

#8,383 in 2025Girls' name

Clear, crystal

Akiko has been given to 790 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #8,383 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1927, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Akiko, 2025

1 in 276,000

Akiko over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Akiko: meaning, origin, and history

Clear, crystal

Japanese

What Akiko means

Akiko means “clear, crystal”.

Origin, language, and formation

Akiko is used in English, French, Puyuma, Rukai and Tagalog. Its origins include Japanese.

Akiko comes through Japanese あきこ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Akiko is pronounced /a.ki.ko/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 790 girls were recorded with the name Akiko between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 34 in 1927; its best national rank was #1,383 in 1927.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,424 in 2020 to #8,383 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,876 in 2015 to #8,383 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 Akiko?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,383
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Akiko 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 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Akiko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Akikos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Akiko was born before 1974 — so the typical Akiko is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
473
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 23.3% of all recorded uses (184).

Is Akiko 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
+6,987
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+41
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,493
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.3%
Peak was 1927 (34)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,383
1927

Spellings of Akiko

Akiko is not the most common spelling — Anika is, with 37.4% against Akiko's 1.8%.

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 Akiko is used

Across 1910–2025, Akiko was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 3,448 girls, against 1 in 67,519 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 100,000).

129 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 3,448
  2. 2California1 in 100,000

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

Akiko around the world

Where Akiko 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
    2006–2015
    #7,297
    in 2015
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

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

Akiko by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,383
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 41
Best rank ever
#1,383
1927
Peak year
1927
34 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
790
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Akiko

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

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Sibling names for Akiko

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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