Feminine dossier · first seen 1989

Akeelah

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Akeelah
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 94.8% from peak

Peak era

2006

Peak rank proxy

403

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Gen Z

1989Peak 20062024

Peak year

2006

Decline from peak

94.8%

2024

All-time

1,517

Akeelah once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 2006, when 403 girls were named Akeelah.

In 2024, only 21 girls were given the name.

Down 94.8% from its peak.

All told, about 1,517 Americans have been named Akeelah and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1989.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGen Z

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 94.8% from peak

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