Akeelah
Akeelah is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 21 births. Its best rank was 708th, in 2006.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 210.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2006403 births
- Best rank
- #708in 2006
- Since 1989
- 1,517people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,517 girls have been named Akeelah in the United States since 1989, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2006, with 403 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2000s alone account for 62%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2006, its biggest year
Akeelah was the 708th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2006 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2006.
Names that rose and fell with Akeelah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marelypeak 2008
- Marelipeak 2008
- Myliepeak 2008
- Jaslenepeak 2008
- Rihannapeak 2008
- Allissonpeak 2008
- Yuridiapeak 2006
- Myleepeak 2008
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.