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Akil

#5,403 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Akil has been given to 2,147 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #5,403 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 82 recorded.

Babies named Akil, 2025

1 in 195,000

Akil over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Akil: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Akil means

Akil is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Akil is used in English, Albanian, Lun Bawang and Turkish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Albanian, Akil is pronounced /aˈkil/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,147 boys were recorded with the name Akil between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 82 in 1994; its best national rank was #1,268 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,651 in 2020 to #5,403 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,432 in 2015 to #5,403 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 Akil?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,403
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Akil 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Akil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Akils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Akil was born before 1996 — so the typical Akil is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
28.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,147
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Choose a decade

1990s — 28.7% of all recorded uses (617).

Is Akil 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
−2,187
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,752
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,971
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.53×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.7%
Peak was 1994 (82)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,268
1977

Spellings of Akil

Akil is not the most common spelling — Neil is, with 16.0% against Akil's 0.33%.

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 Akil is used

Across 1910–2025, Akil was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 145,822 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Maryland1 in 100,000
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Akil has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Akil around the world

Where Akil 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
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    1984–2025
    #1,257
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022

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

Notable people named Akil

People whose public names include Akil, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Akil by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,403
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,752
Best rank ever
#1,268
1977
Peak year
1994
82 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,147
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Akil

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

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Names with a curve like Akil

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Akil, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Akil

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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