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Akeen vs Akemi

American parents have registered 932 Akemis since 1880, against 244 Akeens. Akemi is still ahead, with 22 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Akeen against Akemi, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Akeen Akemi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 57 years in which either name was published, Akemi for 46 years and Akeen for 11 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Akeen Akemi
Total US births 244932
Most in one year 3349
Babies in 2025 under 522
Estimated living today 240910
Median age today 3514
Peak year 19902011
Best rank 2,170th boys3,303rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked5,554th
First recorded 19831944
Girls / boys 0 / 244927 / 5

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Akeens alive today are over 35; half the Akemis are over 14. That is 21 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Akeen and Akemi.