Akaal
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- a-KAAL
- Origin
- Punjabi
- UK rank, 2025
- #703 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #3,756 for boys
Akaal is a boys' name of Punjabi origin, meaning “timeless, eternal”. In 2025 it ranked 703rd for boys in the UK (56 babies) and 3,756th for boys in the US (29 babies).
What does Akaal mean?
Punjabi: from the Sikh scriptures
“timeless, eternal”
Akaal, 'timeless', describes God in Sikh teaching, as in the Akal Takht, the seat of Sikh authority in Amritsar.
Is Akaal a girl's or a boy's name?
Akaal is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls and 56 boys in the UK and 29 boys in the US.
How popular is Akaal in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 703rd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 56 about 1 in 5,400 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 168% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 56 boys in the UK were named Akaal, making it the 703rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,052nd. 4 girls were also named Akaal in 2025 (4,935th for girls).
2025 had the most boys named Akaal of any year since it first appeared, in 2003.
Half of all the boys named Akaal in the UK since 1996 were born between 2016 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 59 boys in the UK were given Akaal or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #619, up from #703 for this spelling alone.
- Akaal 56
- Akal 3
Among boys in 2025, it was 650th in England and Wales.
Akaal in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #703 |
| 2024 | 19 | #1,470 |
| 2023 | 16 | #1,643 |
| 2022 | 19 | #1,452 |
| 2021 | 15 | #1,686 |
| 2020 | 11 | #2,052 |
| 2019 | 13 | #1,858 |
| 2018 | 10 | #2,234 |
| 2017 | 8 | #2,656 |
| 2016 | 11 | #2,143 |
| 2015 | 3 | #4,955 |
| 2014 | 11 | #2,054 |
| 2013 | 13 | #1,799 |
| 2012 | 11 | #2,080 |
| 2011 | 5 | #3,446 |
| 2010 | 5 | #3,478 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #4,615 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 1 | #4,616 |
How popular is Akaal in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,756th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 29 about 1 in 59,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 29 boys in the US were named Akaal, making it the 3,756th most popular name for boys. It first appears in the records in 2024.
Akaal in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #3,756 |
| 2024 | 6 | #10,930 |
Names like Akaal
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad, Musa, Amir, Arham, Aahil, Abdullah, Yahya, Zayaan, Ahmed, Zayd, Ayaan, Ayyub
More Punjabi names
Asees, Gurbaaz, Nirvair, Gurfateh, Jind, Baani, Gurnawab, Jujhar, Ajooni, Mannat, Ekam, Gurniwaz, Gurnaaz, Gursanjh, Avleen, Anhad
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Akaal: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/akaal, updated 20 October 2026.