girls:
5 births since 2015
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
22 births since 1971
#4564 (0th percentile)
overall:
27 births since 1971
#7712 (0th percentile)
The name Ako is the #7,712 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 27 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 0.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,564 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 22 births since 1971. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2015.
Ako first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for boys and 2015 for girls). Birth data for Ako is available in 4 out of the 45 years between 1971 and 2015 (3 years for boys and 1 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 Ako has been given predominantly to boys, with 81.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2015, 0.0% of babies named Ako were boys. Interestingly, until around 2007, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1971 to 2006), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 2007 to 2015).
For boys, Ako reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #657) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1973.
For girls, Ako reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #960) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ako".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Ako. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.2% confident that Ako is pronounced as AH-koh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AY-koh, at 25.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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