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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Akira

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#983

down −31 places

2025 births

257

down −17 births

All-time births

7,817

3% of them in 2025

More common than

97%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2008
424 births
Best rank
#707
in 2008
First recorded
1973
#7,447 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2009
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
51 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 2008424#707Peak
  2. 2009345#819
  3. 2007336#845
  4. 2010322#835
  5. 2011275#938

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #707 in 2008 · peak births 424 in 2008

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 21% boys■ 79% girls

2,020 boys · 7,817 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Akira has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.