In 2025, 64 US boys were named Akram, making it the 2,208th most common boys’ name of the year, up 354 places from #2,562 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 52 boys named Akram in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,868, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 85. For comparison, it was #2,565 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Akram in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 6 babies. In all, 1,453 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 476 babies named Akram.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 643 US boys were named Akram; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 85. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,689 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Akram ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #263 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Ekrem are summarised on this page.