In 2025, 23 US boys were named Akash, making it the 4,402nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 707 places from #3,695 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 30 boys named Akash in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,191, reached in 2002. That year also had the most boys given the name: 117. For comparison, it was #2,687 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Akash in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 7 babies. In all, 2,376 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 874 babies named Akash.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 357 US boys were named Akash; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 50. In 2025 that was about 1 in 74,264 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Aakash, Akaash and Akos are summarised on this page.