Meaning not yet researched.
Akil: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,268 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,268 in 1977; #5,405 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Akil in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,405 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #1,268.
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Akil: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,268 in 1977 · most boys in one year: 82 (1994).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Akil, making it the 5,405th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,187 places from #3,218 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 37 boys named Akil in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,268, reached in 1977. The most boys given the name in a single year was 82, in 1994. For comparison, it was #3,433 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Akil in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 6 babies. In all, 2,147 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 617 babies named Akil.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 307 US boys were named Akil; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Aquil, Akul and Akiel 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: Aquil (494), Akul (210), Akiel (130), Akeel (121), Aqil (79), Aaqil (64), Akaal (35), Akeil (35), Aakil (29), Akol (11), Ahkil (11), Akuol (5), and more.
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 Akil 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 | — | — | 17 | #5,405 |
| 2024 | — | — | 37 | #3,218 |
| 2023 | — | — | 23 | #4,459 |
| 2022 | — | — | 21 | #4,706 |
| 2021 | — | — | 33 | #3,427 |
| 2020 | — | — | 29 | #3,654 |
| 2019 | — | — | 42 | #2,900 |
| 2018 | — | — | 31 | #3,531 |
| 2017 | — | — | 45 | #2,717 |
| 2016 | — | — | 29 | #3,683 |
| 2015 | — | — | 32 | #3,433 |
| 2014 | — | — | 26 | #3,899 |
| 2013 | — | — | 28 | #3,664 |
| 2012 | — | — | 27 | #3,808 |
| 2011 | — | — | 30 | #3,512 |
| 2010 | — | — | 32 | #3,380 |
| 2009 | — | — | 33 | #3,334 |
| 2008 | — | — | 31 | #3,487 |
| 2007 | — | — | 28 | #3,695 |
| 2006 | — | — | 50 | #2,449 |
| 2005 | — | — | 59 | #2,082 |
| 2004 | — | — | 51 | #2,239 |
| 2003 | — | — | 35 | #2,783 |
| 2002 | — | — | 41 | #2,428 |
| 2001 | — | — | 49 | #2,118 |
| 2000 | — | — | 50 | #2,015 |
| 1999 | — | — | 65 | #1,642 |
| 1998 | — | — | 39 | #2,275 |
| 1997 | — | — | 48 | #1,908 |
| 1996 | — | — | 59 | #1,638 |
| 1995 | — | — | 80 | #1,313 |
| 1994 | — | — | 82 | #1,288 |
| 1993 | — | — | 72 | #1,340 |
| 1992 | — | — | 64 | #1,429 |
| 1991 | — | — | 55 | #1,557 |
| 1990 | — | — | 53 | #1,565 |
| 1989 | — | — | 21 | #2,906 |
| 1988 | — | — | 37 | #1,816 |
| 1987 | — | — | 26 | #2,215 |
| 1986 | — | — | 20 | #2,602 |
| 1985 | — | — | 26 | #2,116 |
| 1984 | — | — | 24 | #2,160 |
| 1983 | — | — | 31 | #1,787 |
| 1982 | — | — | 43 | #1,464 |
| 1981 | — | — | 47 | #1,373 |
| 1980 | — | — | 41 | #1,497 |
| 1979 | — | — | 46 | #1,370 |
| 1978 | — | — | 41 | #1,452 |
| 1977 | — | — | 49 | #1,268 |
| 1976 | — | — | 34 | #1,572 |
| 1975 | — | — | 38 | #1,429 |
| 1974 | — | — | 33 | #1,520 |
| 1973 | — | — | 29 | #1,612 |
| 1972 | — | — | 19 | #2,082 |
| 1971 | — | — | 10 | #3,148 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,239 |
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).