Akshay
Akshay is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 22 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 220.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 200889 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1981
- 1,793people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,793 boys have been named Akshay in the United States since 1981, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 89 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 2005, and the 2000s alone account for 41%.
By decade
In 2008, its biggest year
Akshay was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2008 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2008.
Names that rose and fell with Akshay
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Quinlanpeak 2006
- Kushpeak 2005
- Damariuspeak 2006
- Ryleypeak 2007
- Treshawnpeak 2007
- Cristianpeak 2006
- Colepeak 2002
- Varunpeak 2004
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.