Akiva

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Akiva: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Akiva: Recorded every year since 1997, it reached #1,322 in 2002, and it stood at #2,263 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
28times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#1322highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Boys

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2859
1998	#2419
1999	#2425
2000	#2142
2001	#2220
2002	#1322
2003	#1962
2004	#1878
2005	#1991
2006	#1744
2007	#2023
2008	#2097
2009	#2126
2010	#2629
2011	#2613
2012	#2270
2013	#2216
2014	#1819
2015	#2150
2016	#4023
2017	#2324
2018	#2693
2019	#1986
2020	#1935
2021	#1688
2022	#1879
2023	#1610
2024	#2263

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1997 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2859 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1997–2024
Highest recorded position: #1322 among boys in England and Wales, in 2002 (recorded 1997–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2263 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Akiva by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Akiva in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	11	3 of 10	4
2000s	81	10 of 10	8
2010s	85	10 of 10	9
2020sbusiest	62	5 of 10	12

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 12 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Akiva appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1322 in England and Wales in 2002.

Akiva's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#2263	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1610	15	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1879	12	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1688	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1986	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2693	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2324	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2150	10	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1819	12	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2216	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2270	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2613	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2629	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2126	9	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2097	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2023	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1744	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1991	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1878	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1962	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1322	11	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1997 and 2024, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,322, first reached in 2002.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 15 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
28 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#2,263position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
15births registered in its largest year, 2023Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Hanif · #1322, 27y
Harjot · #1322, 29y
Malique · #1322, 25y
Tzvi · #1322, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Ayhan · #1322, 17y
Hanif · #1322, 27y
Harjot · #1322, 29y
Harshiv · #1322, 11y

Akiva and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Akiva without appearing here.

Akiva moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1610 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2263 and #5119.
Morten Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2613 and #2390 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1819 and #4632.
Geoffrey Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1879 and #1879 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1610 and #4107.
Garry Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4023 and #3079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #2693 and #4749.

Moved ahead of Akiva

Braxton Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2629 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #2613 and #1398.
Leif Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1688 and #1782 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1879 and #967.
Rune Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1610 and #1799 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2263 and #1460.
Aksel Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1819 and #2079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #2150 and #1902.

Moved the opposite way to Akiva

Garry Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Akiva went from #2859 to #1610 while Garry went from #914 to #4991.
Graeme Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Akiva went from #2859 to #1610 while Graeme went from #874 to #4107.
Kelly Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Akiva went from #2859 to #1610 while Kelly went from #1454 to #3523.

Moved the same way as Akiva

Espen Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Akiva went from #1322 to #2263 and Espen from #3225 to #5119.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1322 in England and Wales in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Akiva

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Popularity journey

Akiva by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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