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Akshay

#6,155 in 2025Boys' name

Indestructible, through अक्षय

Akshay has been given to 1,808 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #6,155 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 89 recorded.

Babies named Akshay, 2025

1 in 237,000

Akshay over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Akshay: meaning, origin, and history

Indestructible, through अक्षय

Hindi

What Akshay means

Akshay belongs to the name family reached through Akshay → अक्षय → अक्षय. Its meaning is “indestructible”.

Origin, language, and formation

Akshay is used in English. Its origins include Hindi.

Akshay comes through Hindi अक्षय.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include अक and अक्षय.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,808 boys were recorded with the name Akshay between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 89 in 2008; its best national rank was #1,502 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,540 in 2020 to #6,155 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,919 in 2015 to #6,155 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 Akshay?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,155
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Akshay 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Akshay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Akshays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Akshay was born before 2005 — so the typical Akshay is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
40.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,808
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (736).

Is Akshay 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
−1,720
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,615
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,236
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.35×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.7%
Peak was 2008 (89)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,502
2002

Spellings of Akshay

Akshay is not the most common spelling — Shay is, with 44.8% against Akshay's 16.1%.

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 Akshay is used

Across 1910–2025, Akshay was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 118,118 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 in 100,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Akshay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Akshay around the world

Where Akshay 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
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    1994–2024
    #5,206
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1993–2020
    #2,283
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1995–2000
    #556
    in 2000

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

Akshay by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,155
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,615
Best rank ever
#1,502
2002
Peak year
2008
89 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,808
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Akshay

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

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Sibling names for Akshay

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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