girls:
7 births since 2020
#5709 (0th percentile)
boys:
17 births since 2009
#4569 (0th percentile)
overall:
24 births since 2009
#7715 (0th percentile)
The name Akanni is the #7,715 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 24 recorded births since 2009. This represents the 0.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,569 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 17 births since 2009. For girls, it ranks #5,709 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 7 births since 2020.
Akanni first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2009 (2009 for boys and 2020 for girls). Birth data for Akanni is available in 4 out of the 13 years between 2009 and 2021 (3 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Akanni has been given predominantly to boys, with 70.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2021, 100.0% of babies named Akanni were boys.
For boys, Akanni reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #900) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Akanni reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #938) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Akanni".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Akanni. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.5% confident that Akanni is pronounced as uh-KAH-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ah-KAH-nee, at 36.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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