girls:
27 births since 2006
#5689 (0th percentile)
boys:
88 births since 2007
#4498 (2nd percentile)
overall:
115 births since 2006
#7624 (1st percentile)
The name Akon is the #7,624 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 115 recorded births since 2006. This represents the 1.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,498 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 88 births since 2007. For girls, it ranks #5,689 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 27 births since 2006.
Akon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2006 (2006 for girls and 2007 for boys). Birth data for Akon is available in 16 out of the 18 years between 2006 and 2023 (13 years for boys and 5 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 Akon has been given predominantly to boys, with 76.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Akon were boys. Interestingly, until around 2007, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 2006 to 2006), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (80.0% boys from 2007 to 2023).
For boys, Akon reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #900) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Akon ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 59.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Akon reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #944) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% 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 "Akon".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Akon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 33.3% confident that Akon is pronounced as AY-kahn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AY-kawn, at 13.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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