Meaning not yet researched.
Akira: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 257 in 2025. Its best rank was #707 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #707 in 2008; #983 in 2025. About 83% of babies named Akira in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#983 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #707.
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Akira: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 257 girls in 2025. Peak: #707 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 424 (2008).
In 2025, 257 US girls were named Akira, making it the 983rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 31 places from #952 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 274 girls named Akira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #707, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 424. For comparison, it was #1,026 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 52 US boys were named Akira, making it the 2,539th most common boys’ name of the year, down 35 places from #2,504 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 54 boys named Akira in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #938, reached in 1927. The most boys given the name in a single year was 54, in 2024. For comparison, it was #3,299 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Akira in 84 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 8 babies. In all, 9,837 US babies have been given the name, 79% of them girls and 21% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,992 babies named Akira.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,315 US girls were named Akira; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 274. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,254 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Akira ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #548 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Akyra, Akirah and Akeira are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Akyra (667), Akirah (511), Akeira (262), Akera (258), Akiera (237), Akirra (71), Akyrah (51), Akara (47), Aquira (44), Akerah (29), Acura (26), Akeera (20), 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 Akira in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 7 | #548 | — |
| Arizona | 11 | #579 | — |
| Missouri | 9 | #592 | #840 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #599 | #885 |
| California | 42 | #732 | #903 |
| Georgia | 13 | #749 | #819 |
| North Carolina | 12 | #783 | #1,092 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #890 | #843 |
| New York | 17 | #905 | #925 |
| Colorado | 5 | #911 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #942 | #1,071 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,018 | #537 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,039 | #949 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,056 | #837 |
| Florida | 14 | #1,057 | #834 |
| Texas | 24 | #1,121 | #1,808 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,218 | #723 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,276 | #895 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,398 | #1,236 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 257 | #983 | 52 | #2,539 |
| 2024 | 274 | #952 | 54 | #2,504 |
| 2023 | 248 | #1,018 | 49 | #2,660 |
| 2022 | 190 | #1,259 | 45 | #2,830 |
| 2021 | 204 | #1,191 | 43 | #2,864 |
| 2020 | 205 | #1,152 | 46 | #2,689 |
| 2019 | 210 | #1,145 | 30 | #3,641 |
| 2018 | 215 | #1,135 | 45 | #2,711 |
| 2017 | 251 | #1,030 | 25 | #4,108 |
| 2016 | 261 | #1,014 | 24 | #4,202 |
| 2015 | 260 | #1,026 | 34 | #3,299 |
| 2014 | 233 | #1,092 | 35 | #3,154 |
| 2013 | 229 | #1,080 | 24 | #4,067 |
| 2012 | 265 | #958 | 27 | #3,809 |
| 2011 | 275 | #938 | 35 | #3,167 |
| 2010 | 322 | #835 | 34 | #3,242 |
| 2009 | 345 | #819 | 32 | #3,400 |
| 2008 | 424 | #707 | 29 | #3,649 |
| 2007 | 336 | #845 | 35 | #3,188 |
| 2006 | 270 | #970 | 37 | #2,981 |
| 2005 | 229 | #1,043 | 28 | #3,450 |
| 2004 | 199 | #1,144 | 45 | #2,453 |
| 2003 | 213 | #1,057 | 42 | #2,471 |
| 2002 | 242 | #923 | 45 | #2,295 |
| 2001 | 202 | #1,056 | 37 | #2,563 |
| 2000 | 165 | #1,203 | 37 | #2,526 |
| 1999 | 179 | #1,108 | 40 | #2,264 |
| 1998 | 183 | #1,066 | 41 | #2,200 |
| 1997 | 143 | #1,243 | 27 | #2,825 |
| 1996 | 92 | #1,656 | 32 | #2,444 |
| 1995 | 82 | #1,763 | 23 | #3,022 |
| 1994 | 55 | #2,353 | 18 | #3,597 |
| 1993 | 69 | #2,013 | 11 | #5,007 |
| 1992 | 59 | #2,239 | 21 | #3,105 |
| 1991 | 46 | #2,620 | 12 | #4,485 |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,523 | 17 | #3,469 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,405 | 28 | #2,359 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,016 | 11 | #4,167 |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,853 | 19 | #2,726 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,422 | 19 | #2,686 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,086 | 18 | #2,711 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,781 | 13 | #3,273 |
| 1983 | 50 | #2,022 | 19 | #2,493 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,770 | 13 | #3,287 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,890 | 14 | #3,034 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,117 | 6 | #5,540 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,433 | 8 | #4,415 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,461 | 7 | #4,563 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,353 | 12 | #3,205 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,494 | 8 | #3,949 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,240 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,447 | — | — |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #3,969 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #3,842 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #3,974 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,050 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,041 |
| 1939 | — | — | 9 | #2,450 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,650 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,527 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #2,858 |
| 1935 | — | — | 10 | #2,396 |
| 1934 | — | — | 12 | #2,123 |
| 1933 | — | — | 7 | #3,007 |
| 1932 | — | — | 17 | #1,779 |
| 1931 | — | — | 26 | #1,362 |
| 1930 | — | — | 18 | #1,755 |
| 1929 | — | — | 34 | #1,196 |
| 1928 | — | — | 36 | #1,188 |
| 1927 | — | — | 54 | #938 |
| 1926 | — | — | 27 | #1,404 |
| 1925 | — | — | 29 | #1,360 |
| 1924 | — | — | 35 | #1,223 |
| 1923 | — | — | 36 | #1,195 |
| 1922 | — | — | 39 | #1,140 |
| 1921 | — | — | 32 | #1,297 |
| 1920 | — | — | 20 | #1,748 |
| 1919 | — | — | 29 | #1,321 |
| 1918 | — | — | 31 | #1,256 |
| 1917 | — | — | 13 | #2,189 |
| 1916 | — | — | 16 | #1,851 |
| 1915 | — | — | 14 | #1,969 |
| 1914 | — | — | 8 | #2,459 |
| 1913 | — | — | 8 | #2,094 |
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).