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Aqil

#12,166 in 2025Boys' name

Intelligent, wise, reasonable

Aqil has been given to 79 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #12,166 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Aqil, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aqil: meaning, origin, and history

Intelligent, wise, reasonable

Arabic

What Aqil means

Aqil means “intelligent, wise, reasonable”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Aqil is used in Arabic and Urdu.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʕa.ˈqiːl/ for Aqil.

Origin, language, and formation

Aqil is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 79 boys were recorded with the name Aqil between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1999; its best national rank was #7,180 in 1999.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,793 in 2015 to #12,166 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 Aqil?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,166
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aqil 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aqil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aqils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aqil was born before 2007 — so the typical Aqil is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
36.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
79
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 36.7% of all recorded uses (29).

Is Aqil 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
−3,125
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,373
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.5%
Peak was 1999 (8)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,180
1999

Spellings of Aqil

Aqil is not the most common spelling — Neil is, with 18.0% against Aqil's 0.01%.

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.

Aqil around the world

Where Aqil 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
    1996–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    2005–2020
    #4,483
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1996–1996
    #540
    in 1996

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

Aqil by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,166
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,180
1999
Peak year
1999
8 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
79
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Aqil

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

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Sibling names for Aqil

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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