How Many People Are Named Acacia?

4,245

people named Acacia are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 80,514 people in the US has this name

Based on 4,310 babies named Acacia in Social Security records from 1971 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#4,116

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,320

See the top 100

Peak Year

2002

143 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Rare)
Pronunciation: ə-KAY-shə
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

From the name of a type of tree, ultimately deriving from Greek ακη (ake) "thorn, point".

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Acacia in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Acacia alive today is about 23 years old, and 70% are under 30. Half of them were between 13 and 31 in 2025.

Under 30 2,975
70.1%
30 to 59 1,270
29.9%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Acacia first appears in the records in 1971 and was given most often in 2002, to 143 babies. In 2025, 71 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1971 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Acacia has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,310, in 1998. In 2025 it ranked #2,485.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,485
Best rank#1,310 (1998)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,688 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Acacia alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Acacia were born in California than in any other state: about 617 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Acacia was given 5.1 times as often in Oregon, 3.5 times in Colorado and 2.9 times in Washington.

California 617
Texas 218
Washington 92
Ohio 87
Oregon 85
Colorado 84
Pennsylvania 67
Arizona 61
New York 49
Florida 38
Utah 30
Michigan 29
Georgia 24
Indiana 22
Wisconsin 18
North Carolina 17
Minnesota 14
Kansas 10
Tennessee 10
New Mexico 8
Illinois 6
Hawaii 6
Massachusetts 5
Virginia 5

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