Akila
#8,384 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Akila has been given to 730 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #8,384 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 29 recorded.
Babies named Akila, 2025
1 in 276,000
Akila 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Akila?
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
- #8,384
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 191,493 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Akila sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Akila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Akilas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Akila was born before 2000 — so the typical Akila is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 24.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 48.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 730
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 24.5% of all recorded uses (179).
Is Akila 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
- +2,769
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,448
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,347
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.57×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 41.4%
- Peak was 1997 (29)
- Years since peak
- 28
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.7% average annual change
Spellings of Akila
Akila is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 15.0% against Akila's 0.05%.
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 Akila is used
Across 1910–2025, Akila was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,104,378 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Georgia1 in —
- 4Illinois1 in —
- 5New York1 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. Akila has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Akila around the world
Where Akila 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 & Wales1996–2013#5,742in 2013
- France1954–2025#7,338in 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.
Akila by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Akila
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Akila
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.