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Akira

Boy's name · #2539 in the US (2025) · Vintage

17% boys · 83% girls — About 83% of babies named Akira in recent years have been girls. Akira →

Popularity over time

Akira is an heirloom: its strongest era came around 1927, when it ranked #938. It has thinned since but never left the records — about 2,000 boys since 1913, ranked #2539 today.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 2 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#1,649 in Italy (2024) · #1,718 in Canada (2025) · #1,755 in France (2025) · #1,942 in Switzerland (2025) · #2,144 in Sweden (2025) · #2,664 in England & Wales (2025) · #1,370 in Ecuador (2024) · #1,878 in Austria (2024).

Famous Akiras

• Akira Kurosawa — Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998)
• Akira Toriyama — Japanese manga artist and character designer (1955–2024)
• Akira Suzuki — Japanese chemist (born 1930)
• Akira Yoshino — Japanese engineer and researcher , known as an inventor of lithium-ion battery (born 1948)
• Akira Nishino — Japanese football manager (born 1955)
• Akira Yamaoka — Japanese composer and sound designer (born 1968)
• Akira Yoshizawa — Japanese origamist (1911–2005)
• Akira Kaji — Japanese footballer (born 1980)
• Akira Narahashi — Japanese footballer (born 1971)
• Akira Matsunaga — Japanese footballer (1914–1943)

In stories & tradition

• Akira Fudo — Fictional character from Go Nagai's manga series Devilman
• Akira Yuki — Virtua Fighter 2 (video game)
• Akira Nishikiyama — Fictional character from the Yakuza series

What Akiras become

Among 1,518 notable people named Akira:

Business leaders appear 2.65× more often than among typical names — e.g. Akira Mori, Japanese businessman (born 1936).

Similar names: Kaito · Akiva · Sora · Ryu · Aizen · Lyan

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