Akilah is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Akilah is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Akilah. In the SmartGenius ranking, Akilah is #4,365 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Akilah.
In fact, the name Akilah hardly fits the trend of first names for girls. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Akilah wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1978, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,212, 93 parents chose it in 1978 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Akilah, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Akilah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Akilah a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 4,321, for a total of 27 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Akilah seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Akilah are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Akilah is registered in 15 states, among which are California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois or Maryland. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Akilah live in Georgia, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 29,298 would turn around if you called the name Akilah across Georgia.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With six letters, the name Akilah is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Akilah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Akilah, you can simply say:
Apple
Koala
Igloo
Lion
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Akilah
Akilah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
K
I
L
A
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
K
I
L
A
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Akilah sounds like this:
