Akirah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-KEE-ra
- Origin
- Japanese
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Akirah is a girls' name of Japanese origin, meaning “bright, clear”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Akirah mean?
Japanese: spelling of Akira
“bright, clear”
The meaning depends on the kanji used; the film director Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) is its best-known bearer.
Meaning borrowed from Akira. More on Wiktionary.
Is Akirah a girl's or a boy's name?
Akirah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Akirah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Akirah, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 34 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.
Half of all the girls named Akirah in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 264 girls in the US were given Akirah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #898, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
- Akira 257
- Akirah 7
Akirah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,338 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,142 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,398 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,719 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,205 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,027 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,573 |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,932 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,734 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,369 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,549 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,806 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,684 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,886 |
| 2004 | 20 | #5,965 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,202 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,039 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,189 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,202 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,185 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,011 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,839 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,576 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
Names like Akirah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah Hadassah Zaniyah Kaliyah Aziyah Jaliyah Naziyah Zaliyah Alaiyah Safa Taliyah Samiyah
Other spellings of Akirah
Names related to Akirah
More Japanese names
Kobe Kaizen Raiden Ren Kenzo Ronin Kyomi Yuna Emi Kiyomi Kairi Miya Kenji Reo Jiraiya Aizen
Sources
Figures from 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, “Akirah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/akirah, updated 20 October 2026.