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Akshar

#3,951 in 2025Boys' name

From Sanskrit अक्षर; literal meaning unconfirmed

Akshar has been given to 621 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #3,951 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Akshar, 2025

1 in 123,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Akshar: meaning, origin, and history

From Sanskrit अक्षर; literal meaning unconfirmed

Sanskrit

What Akshar means

Akshar is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Akshar is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Akshar comes through Sanskrit अक्षर.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 621 boys were recorded with the name Akshar between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 34 in 2020; its best national rank was #3,272 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,272 in 2020 to #3,951 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,545 in 2015 to #3,951 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 Akshar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 63,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,951
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Akshar 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Akshar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Akshars were born

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

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
621
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.3% of all recorded uses (213).

Is Akshar 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
+1,956
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−679
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+594
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.29×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
79.4%
Peak was 2020 (34)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,272
2020

Spellings of Akshar

Akshar is not the most common spelling — Asher is, with 95.7% against Akshar's 0.53%.

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 Akshar is used

Across 1910–2025, Akshar was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 494,613 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 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. Akshar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Akshar around the world

Where Akshar 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
    1999–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2011–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Akshar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,951
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 679
Best rank ever
#3,272
2020
Peak year
2020
34 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
621
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Akshar

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

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Sibling names for Akshar

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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