Meaning not yet researched.
Akilah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,299 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,299 in 1978; #9,475 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Akilah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,475 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #1,299.
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Akilah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,299 in 1978 · most girls in one year: 115 (1993).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Akilah, making it the 9,475th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,490 places from #7,985 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 13 girls named Akilah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,299, reached in 1978. The most girls given the name in a single year was 115, in 1993. For comparison, it was #6,245 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Akilah in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 12 babies. In all, 3,012 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 874 babies named Akilah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 233 US girls were named Akilah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Akeelah (1,533 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Akila, Akela and Akyla 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: Akila (730), Akela (658), Akyla (279), Akylah (201), Akeila (189), Akaylah (170), Akeylah (140), Akaila (71), Akelah (64), Akala (34), Aquilah (32), Akailah (31), 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 Akilah 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 | 10 | #9,475 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,985 | — | — |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,651 | — | — |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,913 | — | — |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,615 | — | — |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,549 | — | — |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,804 | — | — |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,895 | — | — |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,348 | — | — |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,854 | — | — |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,245 | — | — |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,217 | — | — |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,921 | — | — |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,604 | — | — |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,999 | — | — |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,889 | — | — |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,576 | — | — |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,782 | — | — |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,129 | — | — |
| 2006 | 80 | #2,354 | — | — |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,789 | — | — |
| 2004 | 48 | #3,180 | — | — |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,800 | — | — |
| 2002 | 68 | #2,352 | — | — |
| 2001 | 54 | #2,741 | — | — |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,778 | — | — |
| 1999 | 65 | #2,284 | — | — |
| 1998 | 61 | #2,307 | — | — |
| 1997 | 97 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 1996 | 114 | #1,438 | — | — |
| 1995 | 88 | #1,670 | — | — |
| 1994 | 80 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 1993 | 115 | #1,411 | — | — |
| 1992 | 97 | #1,588 | — | — |
| 1991 | 92 | #1,628 | — | — |
| 1990 | 65 | #2,053 | — | — |
| 1989 | 63 | #1,998 | — | — |
| 1988 | 62 | #1,952 | — | — |
| 1987 | 61 | #1,880 | — | — |
| 1986 | 58 | #1,910 | — | — |
| 1985 | 47 | #2,204 | — | — |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,150 | — | — |
| 1983 | 75 | #1,512 | — | — |
| 1982 | 83 | #1,445 | — | — |
| 1981 | 78 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 1980 | 95 | #1,328 | — | — |
| 1979 | 95 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1978 | 93 | #1,299 | — | — |
| 1977 | 86 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1976 | 74 | #1,422 | — | — |
| 1975 | 60 | #1,626 | — | — |
| 1974 | 58 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,507 | — | — |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,525 | — | — |
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).