How popular is “Akeelah” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Akeelah” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Akeelah” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Akeelah” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Akeelah” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1989	7	0.000001821	7	100%
1995	5	0.000001365	5	100%
1996	6	0.000001645	6	100%
1997	8	0.000002206	8	100%
2002	6	0.000001605	6	100%
2006	403	0.000101866	403	100%
2007	249	0.000062286	249	100%
2008	160	0.000040706	160	100%
2009	124	0.000032459	124	100%
2010	94	0.000025435	94	100%
2011	58	0.000015857	58	100%
2012	39	0.000010663	39	100%
2013	40	0.000010972	40	100%
2014	34	0.000009173	34	100%
2015	37	0.000009998	37	100%
2016	34	0.000009268	34	100%
2017	30	0.000008389	30	100%
2018	39	0.000011092	39	100%
2019	30	0.000008643	30	100%
2020	22	0.000006586	22	100%
2021	27	0.000007969	27	100%
2022	24	0.000007094	24	100%
2023	20	0.00000604	20	100%
2024	21	0.000006309	21	100%

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