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Akio

#3,181 in 2025Boys' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Akio has been given to 587 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #3,181 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Akio, 2025

1 in 89,600

Akio over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Akio: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Akio means

Akio is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include bright, luminous, man, husband, male, man, hero, manly.

Origin, language, and formation

Akio is used in English and Portuguese. Its origins include Japanese.

Akio comes through Japanese あきお.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Akio is pronounced /ˈa.ki.u/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 587 boys were recorded with the name Akio between 1919 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,799 in 1927.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,856 in 2020 to #3,181 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,077 in 2015 to #3,181 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 Akio?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 89,600
37 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 46,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,181
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
62,106 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Akio 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 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Akio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Akios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Akio was born before 2012 — so the typical Akio is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
30.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
509
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (178).

Is Akio 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
+893
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,675
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,896
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.36×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (37)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,799
1927

Spellings of Akio

Akio is not the most common spelling — Mario is, with 32.3% against Akio's 0.13%.

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 Akio is used

Across 1910–2025, Akio was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 422,466 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Akio has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Akio around the world

Where Akio 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
    2011–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    2010–2024
    #4,793
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2019–2023
    #2,931
    in 2023

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.

Akio by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,181
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,675
Best rank ever
#1,799
1927
Peak year
2025
37 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
587
Count in 2025
37

Names similar to Akio

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

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Sibling names for Akio

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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