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Akram

#2,208 in 2025Boys' name

Generous; noble, through أَكْرَم

Akram has been given to 1,453 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #2,208 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 85 recorded.

Babies named Akram, 2025

1 in 51,800

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Akram: meaning, origin, and history

Generous; noble, through أَكْرَم

Arabic

What Akram means

Akram belongs to the name family reached through Akram → أَكْرَم. Its meaning is “generous; noble”.

Origin, language, and formation

Akram is used in French. Its origins include Arabic.

Akram comes through Arabic أَكْرَم.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include أَكْرَم.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Akram is pronounced /a.kʁam/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,453 boys were recorded with the name Akram between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 85 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,868 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,997 in 2020 to #2,208 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,564 in 2015 to #2,208 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 Akram?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 51,800
64 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 26,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,208
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
35,906 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Akram 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 35,906 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Akram. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Akrams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Akram was born before 2014 — so the typical Akram is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,453
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Choose a decade

2010s — 32.8% of all recorded uses (476).

Is Akram 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
+354
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−211
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+356
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.3%
Peak was 2023 (85)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,868
2023

Spellings of Akram

Akram is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 87.9% against Akram's 0.22%.

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 Akram is used

Across 2016–2025, Akram was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 1,613 boys, against 1 in 26,353 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

062 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 1,613
  2. 2Ohio1 in 20,000
  3. 3New York1 in 25,000
  4. 4Virginia1 in 50,000
  5. 5California1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 100,000

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.

Akram around the world

Where Akram 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
    #953
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2024–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1973–2025
    #559
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2024–2025
    #393
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,698
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1983–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Akram by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,208
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 211
Best rank ever
#1,868
2023
Peak year
2023
85 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,453
Count in 2025
64

Names similar to Akram

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

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Sibling names for Akram

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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