In 2025, 25 US girls were named Akasha, making it the 5,105th most common girls’ name of the year, up 863 places from #5,968 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 20 girls named Akasha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,477, reached in 2003. That year also had the most girls given the name: 132. For comparison, it was #3,770 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Akasha in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 5 babies. In all, 1,433 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 646 babies named Akasha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 302 US girls were named Akasha; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 41. In 2025 that was about 1 in 64,291 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Akisha, Akeisha and Akesha are summarised on this page.