Akiva
About 2,932 American babies have been named Akiva since 1961, most of them around 2020. Its origin is given as Hebrew. In 2025 it ranked 1,466th. About 2,900 Akivas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Akiva boys named Akiva
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,932
- Estimated living today
- 2,900
- Median age today
- 13
- Peak year
- 2020
- Best rank
- 1,262nd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,466th
- First recorded
- 1961
- Girls / boys
- 138 / 2,794
How old the living Akivas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,932 babies given the name since 1961, about 2,900 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,800 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
From Hebrew יַעֲקֹב.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Akivas
- Akiva ben Joseph (50–135)Jewish scholar and sage (c. 50 – c.135)
- Akiva Goldsman (born 1962)American film producer
- Akiva Schaffer (born 1977)American comedy writer, actor and film director
- Akiva Eger Jr. (1761–1837)German rabbi
- Akiva Yaglom (1921–2007)Russian mathematician
People named Akiva with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Akiva is most common
Across the country Akiva is recorded 0.60 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Akivas are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 2020
The most popular boys’ names the year Akiva peaked:
Akiva elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Akiva | 252 | 1,610th |
| France boys | Akiva | 80 | 2,698th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Akiva against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.