Meaning not yet researched.
Akeelah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #708 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #708 in 2006; #7,146 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Akeelah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,146 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #708.
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Akeelah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 girls in 2025. Peak: #708 in 2006 · most girls in one year: 403 (2006).
In 2025, 15 US girls were named Akeelah, making it the 7,146th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,342 places from #5,804 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 21 girls named Akeelah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #708, reached in 2006. That year also had the most girls given the name: 403. For comparison, it was #3,992 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Akeelah in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 7 babies. In all, 1,533 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 942 babies named Akeelah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 263 US girls were named Akeelah; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 107,151 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Akilah (3,012 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Akeyla, Aqueelah and Akeela are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Akeyla (344), Aqueelah (321), Akeela (197), Akeeyla (7), Akaela (6), Ahkeelah (6).
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 Akeelah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,146 | — | — |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,804 | — | — |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,974 | — | — |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,317 | — | — |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,839 | — | — |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,492 | — | — |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,549 | — | — |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,790 | — | — |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,481 | — | — |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,254 | — | — |
| 2015 | 37 | #3,992 | — | — |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,271 | — | — |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,783 | — | — |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,917 | — | — |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,945 | — | — |
| 2010 | 94 | #2,094 | — | — |
| 2009 | 124 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 2008 | 160 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 2007 | 249 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 2006 | 403 | #708 | — | — |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,642 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,830 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,843 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,440 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,696 | — | — |
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).