Akram

maleStatistical record

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

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

Akram: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #355, and it stood at #393 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#355highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1591
1997	#1761
1998	#1367
1999	#1383
2000	#1096
2001	#883
2002	#950
2003	#1188
2004	#749
2005	#982
2006	#914
2007	#1169
2008	#987
2009	#972
2010	#1171
2011	#1209
2012	#1086
2013	#1183
2014	#866
2015	#1159
2016	#1050
2017	#996
2018	#1040
2019	#908
2020	#993
2021	#939
2022	#925
2023	#1139
2024	#981

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 1996 to 2024.

In 2025: #393 among boys in Norway, #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1591 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2024–2025
Highest recorded position: #355 among boys in Norway, in 2024 (recorded 2024–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #393 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Akram appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 657 births with the name.

Akram across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Akram's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1591 (1996)	#749 (2004)	#981 (2024)	29 of 29	657 (1996–2024)	34 (2014)
Norway · Boys	#355 (2024)	#355 (2024)	#393 (2025)	2 of 2	16 (2024–2025)	9 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#785 (2024)	#785 (2024)	#829 (2025)	2 of 2	6 (2024–2025)	3 (2024)

Akram 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 Akram in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	31	4 of 10	8
2000s	215	10 of 10	22
2010s	262	10 of 10	26
2020sbusiest	149	5 of 10	30

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 30 births a year.

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

Akram appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #355 in Norway in 2024.

Akram'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	#981	31	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1139	25	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#925	33	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#939	32	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#993	28	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#908	32	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1040	27	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#996	30	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1050	27	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1159	23	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#866	34	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1183	21	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1086	25	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1209	21	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1171	22	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#972	27	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#987	26	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1169	20	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#914	26	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#982	22	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#749	30	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1188	14	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#950	18	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#883	19	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1096	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1383	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1367	9	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1761	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1591	7	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#393	7	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#355	9	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #355, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 34 births, registered in England and Wales in 2014.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

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

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Akorede · #1951, 10y
Akosua · #2112, 23y
Aksa · #1139, 20y
Aksel · #6, 81y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, 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.

Harleigh · #355, 29y
Laney · #355, 27y
Portia · #355, 29y
Isobella · #354, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Alia · #355, 30y
Harleigh · #355, 29y
Jess · #355, 31y
Laney · #355, 27y

Akram was ranked #355 in Norway · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Akram 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 Akram without appearing here.

Akram moved ahead of

Kim Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1367 and #1367 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #1383 and #2943.
Graeme Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1383 and #1281 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1096 and #2501.
Graham Compare
In 2005 they stood at #982 and #954 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #914 and #1892.
Ross Compare
In 2019 they stood at #908 and #894 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #993 and #1723.

Moved ahead of Akram

Kasper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #914 and #1168 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1169 and #820.
Theodor Compare
In 2014 they stood at #866 and #1012 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #1159 and #873.
Arlo Compare
In 2004 they stood at #749 and #875 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #982 and #766.
Tadhg Compare
In 2014 they stood at #866 and #1630 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #1159 and #996.

Moved the opposite way to Akram

Brent Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Akram went from #1591 to #925 while Brent went from #898 to #3449.
Tor Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Akram went from #1591 to #925 while Tor went from #2020 to #3449.
Shannon Compare
Between 1996 and 2019 in England and Wales · Boys, Akram went from #1591 to #908 while Shannon went from #1168 to #4702.

Moved the same way as Akram

Cooper Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Akram went from #1761 to #981 and Cooper from #2022 to #139.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #355 in Norway in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Akram

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Akram across 3 official records

Akram by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Akram across 3 official records

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