How Many People Are Named Akshay?
people named Akshay are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 192,446 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,808 babies named Akshay in Social Security records from 1981 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
89 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "undecaying" in Sanskrit.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Akshay in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Akshay alive today is about 20 years old, and 85% are under 30. Half of them were between 13 and 26 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Akshay first appears in the records in 1981 and was given most often in 2008, to 89 babies. In 2025, 14 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1981 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Akshay has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,502, in 2002. In 2025 it ranked #6,155.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #6,155 |
| Best rank | #1,502 (2002) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,776 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Akshay alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Akshay were born in California than in any other state: about 334 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Akshay was given 6.4 times as often in New Jersey, 3.1 times in California and 1.9 times in New York.
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