Meaning not yet researched.
Akhil: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,549 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,549 in 2003; #5,614 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Akhil in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,614 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #1,549.
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Akhil: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,549 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 95 (2007).
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Akhil, making it the 5,614th most common boys’ name of the year, down 164 places from #5,450 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 17 boys named Akhil in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,549, reached in 2003. The most boys given the name in a single year was 95, in 2007. For comparison, it was #2,112 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Akhil in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1984 with 7 babies. In all, 1,820 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 787 babies named Akhil.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 295 US boys were named Akhil; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 49. In 2025 that was about 1 in 106,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Achol and Achel 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Achol (101), Achel (39).
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 Akhil 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 | — | — | 16 | #5,614 |
| 2024 | — | — | 17 | #5,450 |
| 2023 | — | — | 17 | #5,475 |
| 2022 | — | — | 22 | #4,574 |
| 2021 | — | — | 31 | #3,584 |
| 2020 | — | — | 25 | #4,023 |
| 2019 | — | — | 30 | #3,640 |
| 2018 | — | — | 45 | #2,710 |
| 2017 | — | — | 43 | #2,800 |
| 2016 | — | — | 49 | #2,553 |
| 2015 | — | — | 66 | #2,112 |
| 2014 | — | — | 70 | #2,018 |
| 2013 | — | — | 70 | #1,965 |
| 2012 | — | — | 82 | #1,799 |
| 2011 | — | — | 86 | #1,720 |
| 2010 | — | — | 78 | #1,850 |
| 2009 | — | — | 92 | #1,699 |
| 2008 | — | — | 88 | #1,719 |
| 2007 | — | — | 95 | #1,621 |
| 2006 | — | — | 86 | #1,654 |
| 2005 | — | — | 78 | #1,711 |
| 2004 | — | — | 61 | #1,974 |
| 2003 | — | — | 82 | #1,549 |
| 2002 | — | — | 76 | #1,597 |
| 2001 | — | — | 69 | #1,677 |
| 2000 | — | — | 60 | #1,799 |
| 1999 | — | — | 50 | #1,932 |
| 1998 | — | — | 40 | #2,235 |
| 1997 | — | — | 41 | #2,126 |
| 1996 | — | — | 19 | #3,549 |
| 1995 | — | — | 16 | #3,859 |
| 1994 | — | — | 25 | #2,849 |
| 1993 | — | — | 11 | #5,006 |
| 1992 | — | — | 15 | #3,923 |
| 1991 | — | — | 13 | #4,237 |
| 1990 | — | — | 13 | #4,172 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #3,813 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,166 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,103 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #6,547 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #4,985 |
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).