girls:
1.5k births since 1989
#4248 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1989
#6250 (19th percentile)
The name Akeelah is the #6,250 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,495 recorded births since 1989. This represents the 19.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,248 (25.7% percentile) for all time with 1,495 births since 1989.
Akeelah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1989 (first recorded for girls in 1989). Birth data for Akeelah is available in 23 out of the 35 years between 1989 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, Akeelah reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 38.8% percentile (ranked #592) with 193 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 193 births per million (ranked 38.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Akeelah ranks #932 for girls (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 5.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Akeelah".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Akeelah is pronounced as uh-KEE-luh, which has 3 syllables.
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