Meaning not yet researched.
Akari: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 554 in 2025. Its best rank was #542 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 84% of babies named Akari in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#542 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Akari: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 554 boys in 2025. Peak: #542 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 554 (2025).
In 2025, 554 US boys were named Akari, making it the 542nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,089 places from #1,631 in 2024. That is 450 more than the 104 boys named Akari in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #542, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 554. For comparison, it was #4,894 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 104 US girls were named Akari, making it the 1,881st most common girls’ name of the year, down 10 places from #1,871 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 107 girls named Akari in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,813, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 111. For comparison, it was #4,986 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Akari in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 5 babies. In all, 2,410 US babies have been given the name, 47% of them girls and 53% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,461 babies named Akari.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,093 US boys were named Akari; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 554. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,083 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Akari ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #157 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Akeria, Acari and Ahkari are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Akeria (305), Acari (114), Ahkari (90), Akiria (39), Akarri (37), Akarii (31), Akaria (24), Akyrie (21), Akyria (6), Akarie (5), Akori (5), Akaree (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Akari in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 22 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 20 | #157 | — |
| Louisiana | 20 | #253 | — |
| Alabama | 21 | #260 | — |
| Maryland | 20 | #268 | — |
| South Carolina | 17 | #311 | — |
| North Carolina | 35 | #330 | — |
| Georgia | 34 | #350 | — |
| Missouri | 17 | #368 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | #387 | — |
| Ohio | 27 | #395 | — |
| Florida | 47 | #412 | — |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #439 | — |
| Nevada | 6 | #444 | — |
| Iowa | 7 | #448 | — |
| Tennessee | 16 | #477 | — |
| New York | 32 | #502 | — |
| Virginia | 14 | #525 | — |
| Indiana | 12 | #545 | — |
| Arkansas | 5 | #555 | — |
| Minnesota | 7 | #641 | — |
| New Jersey | 10 | #658 | — |
| Illinois | 13 | #679 | — |
| Michigan | 11 | #679 | — |
| Texas | 40 | #700 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #709 | — |
| Arizona | 8 | #721 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #757 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #802 | — |
| California | 23 | #958 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 104 | #1,881 | 554 | #542 |
| 2024 | 107 | #1,871 | 104 | #1,631 |
| 2023 | 111 | #1,813 | 108 | #1,608 |
| 2022 | 74 | #2,446 | 71 | #2,095 |
| 2021 | 63 | #2,716 | 53 | #2,500 |
| 2020 | 54 | #2,968 | 58 | #2,323 |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,669 | 50 | #2,584 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,748 | 40 | #2,945 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,067 | 33 | #3,383 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,928 | 22 | #4,472 |
| 2015 | 27 | #4,986 | 19 | #4,894 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,589 | 24 | #4,139 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,782 | 27 | #3,755 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,366 | 22 | #4,394 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,247 | 14 | #5,957 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,226 | 15 | #5,745 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,714 | 12 | #6,815 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,354 | 11 | #7,203 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,564 | 9 | #8,189 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,598 | 6 | #10,709 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,513 | 7 | #9,144 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,777 | 5 | #11,401 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,452 | 6 | #9,609 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,902 | 8 | #7,663 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,076 | — | — |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,494 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,460 | — | — |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,476 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,869 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,155 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,090 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,603 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,534 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,995 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).