Akiva
Akiva is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 116 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1160.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2020145 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1961
- 2,806people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,668 boys have been named Akiva in the United States since 1961, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 145 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2011, and the 2010s alone account for 31%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 138 girls have also been given it, 4.9% of the total.
By decade
In 2020, its biggest year
Akiva was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2020 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and William. See all of 2020.
Names that rose and fell with Akiva
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Naveenpeak 2023
- Issapeak 2024
- Samirpeak 2023
- Yehudapeak 2024
- Dovidpeak 2022
- Octavianpeak 2021
- Shimonpeak 2024
- Tzvipeak 2021
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.