girls:
248 births since 1972
#5468 (4th percentile)
boys:
349 births since 1971
#4237 (8th percentile)
overall:
597 births since 1971
#7142 (8th percentile)
The name Aki is the #7,142 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 597 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 7.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,237 (7.6% percentile) for all time with 349 births since 1971. For girls, it ranks #5,468 (4.3% percentile) for all time with 248 births since 1972.
Aki first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for boys and 1972 for girls). Birth data for Aki is available in 50 out of the 53 years between 1971 and 2023 (42 years for boys and 37 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 Aki has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (58.5% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Aki were boys.
For boys, Aki reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #919) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). Despite a peak around 2013, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Aki ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 63.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Aki reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #818) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aki".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Aki. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 74.5% confident that Aki is pronounced as AH-kee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-kee, at 12.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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