Akili is a unisex first name. It is given slightly more often to boys than to girls.
At least in the US, the name Akili is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Akili each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Akili will meet someone with the same name. So, Akili is a very special name!
In fact, the name Akili hardly fits the trend of first names. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Akili 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 1999, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 5,495, 38 parents chose it in 1999 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Akili, 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 Akili was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Akili a few times. Among all newborn babies, it ranked 12,919, for a total of 14 newborns. 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 Akili seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
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 given names. 10.3% of all common first names in the US start with this letter. The second most common initial letter in first names is J.
With five letters, the name Akili is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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 10.3% of all first names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average.
If your name is Akili 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 Akili, you can simply say:
Apple
Koala
Igloo
Lion
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Akili
Akili
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
K
I
L
I
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
I
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. Akili sounds like this:
