girls:
1.6k births since 1974
#4197 (27th percentile)
boys:
94 births since 1989
#4492 (2nd percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1974
#6101 (21st percentile)
The name Akia is the #6,101 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,647 recorded births since 1974. This represents the 21.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,197 (26.6% percentile) for all time with 1,553 births since 1974. For boys, it ranks #4,492 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 94 births since 1989.
Akia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1974 (1974 for girls and 1989 for boys). Birth data for Akia is available in 47 out of the 50 years between 1974 and 2023 (47 years for girls and 12 years for boys). 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 Akia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 94.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Akia reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 8.7% percentile (ranked #798) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 42 births per million (ranked 8.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2002, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Akia ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 6.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Akia reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #786) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Akia".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Akia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.0% confident that Akia is pronounced as uh-KEE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-kee-uh, at 21.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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