Akriti

Girls' name

Shape, form, figure

Akriti has been given to 27 babies in the U.S. since 2009. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2011, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Akriti, 2016

1 in 524,000

Akriti over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Akriti: meaning, origin, and history

Shape, form, figure

Sanskrit

What Akriti means

Akriti means “shape, form, figure”, associated with ākṛti.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Sanskrit आकृति (ākṛti, “shape, form, figure”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Akriti (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Akriti is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 27 girls were recorded with the name Akriti between 2009 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2011; its best national rank was #11,211 in 2011.

How common is Akriti?

Akriti had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016: 1 in 524,000; 7 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only: 1 in 253,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 363,362 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Akriti 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 2016 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 363,362 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Akriti. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Akritis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Akriti was born before 2011 — so the typical Akriti is around 14 today.

Median birth year: 2011; About 14 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 81.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 27; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 81.5% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Akriti 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2011 (9)
Years since peak: 14; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #11,211; 2011

Spellings of Akriti

Akriti is not the most common spelling — Kristi is, with 91.7% against Akriti's 0.03%.

Kristi91.7%76,484
Aditi4.4%3,712
Amrita1.2%1,027
Dhriti1.0%875
Aerith0.94%781
Kriti0.62%521
Akriti0.03%27

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.

Akriti around the world

Where Akriti 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
2004–2014
#5,691
in 2014

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Akriti by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #11,211; 2011
Peak year: 2011; 9 that year
First recorded: 2009
Last recorded: 2016
All-time count: 27
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Akriti

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

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Sibling names for Akriti

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Elin Lilyanna Samiyah Kamille Kyndall Lillianna Leigha Rylan

For a brother

Jadiel Jorden Semaj Giovani Xzavier Jerimiah Rylee Konnor

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