girls:
1.4k births since 1976
#4343 (24th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1976
#6359 (18th percentile)
The name Akasha is the #6,359 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,384 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 17.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,343 (24.0% percentile) for all time with 1,384 births since 1976.
Akasha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (first recorded for girls in 1976). Birth data for Akasha is available in 40 out of the 48 years between 1976 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Akasha reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 14.0% percentile (ranked #780) with 66 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 66 births per million (ranked 14.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Akasha ranks #923 for girls (2.5% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 25.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Akasha".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Akasha is pronounced as uh-KAH-shuh, which has 3 syllables.
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