Akilah
Akilah is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1993115 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1972
- 3,002people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,002 girls have been named Akilah in the United States since 1972, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1993, with 115 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 1993, and the 1990s alone account for 29%.
By decade
In 1993, its biggest year
Akilah was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1993 were Jessica, Ashley, Sarah, Samantha and Emily. See all of 1993.
Names that rose and fell with Akilah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jamaicapeak 1977
- Brookpeak 1980
- Chasidypeak 1990
- Jamillapeak 1988
- Arinpeak 1997
- Zakiapeak 1975
- Kaishapeak 1998
- Rebekahpeak 1996
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.