Akira

girls:

7.3k births since 1973

#1911 (67th percentile)

boys:

1.9k births since 1913

#2861 (38th percentile)

overall:

9.2k births since 1913

#2810 (64th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Akira".

1913 2023 19132023

Key Statistics

Total Births
7,279
Peak Births
424
Peak Year
2008
First Recorded
1973
Peak Percentile
40.2%
Current Percentile
25.3%
Peak Rank
#589
Current Rank
#708
Female statistics
Total Births
1,914
Peak Births
54
Peak Year
1927
First Recorded
1913
Peak Percentile
9.1%
Current Percentile
4.8%
Peak Rank
#405
Current Rank
#867
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Akira

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Akira. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 43.1% confident that Akira is pronounced as uh-KEE-ruh. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-KIH-ruh, at 29.3% confidence.

ah-KIH-ruh (3 syllables)
12.1% confidence
AA0 K IH1 R AH0
ah-KEE-ruh (3 syllables)
10.3% confidence
AA0 K IY1 R AH0
AH-kih-ruh (3 syllables)
5.2% confidence
AA1 K IH0 R AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Akira. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Akira, please vote using the thumbs up button.

uh-KAY-ruh (3 syllables)
2 names 267 births
AH0 K EY1 R AH0

Names with this pronunciation:

uh-KEE-er-uh (4 syllables)
3 names 256 births
AH0 K IY1 ER0 AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like AH0 K IY1 R AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.