How Many People Are Named Akash?
people named Akash are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 147,067 people in the US has this name
Based on 2,376 babies named Akash in Social Security records from 1975 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
117 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "open space, sky" in Sanskrit.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Akash in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Akash alive today is about 22 years old, and 77% are under 30. Half of them were between 15 and 29 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Akash first appears in the records in 1975 and was given most often in 2002, to 117 babies. In 2025, 23 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1975 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Akash has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,189, in 2002. In 2025 it ranked #4,401.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #4,401 |
| Best rank | #1,189 (2002) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,574 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Akash alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Akash were born in California than in any other state: about 438 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Akash was given 6.2 times as often in New Jersey, 2.7 times in California and 2.6 times in New York.
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