girls:
80 births since 1997
#5636 (1st percentile)
overall:
80 births since 1997
#7659 (1st percentile)
The name Akire is the #7,659 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 80 recorded births since 1997. This represents the 1.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,636 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 80 births since 1997.
Akire first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1997 (first recorded for girls in 1997). Birth data for Akire is available in 12 out of the 25 years between 1997 and 2021. 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, Akire reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #934) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Akire".
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Our model has identified 14 different pronunciations for the name Akire. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 17.1% confident that Akire is pronounced as uh-KIHR, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-KEAR, at 17.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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