The name Anakin is becoming increasingly popular. It was invented by George Lucas as the real name for his character Darth Vader. The name Anakin is first mentioned in the film ‘Star Wars: Episode VI – The Return of the Jedi’ (1983).
Anakin is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Anakin isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Anakin ranks 755. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Anakin. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Anakin.
The name Anakin is becoming increasingly popular. It was invented by George Lucas as the real name for his character Darth Vader. The name Anakin is first mentioned in the film ‘Star Wars: Episode VI – The Return of the Jedi’ (1983).
Lucas may have based it... on the surname of his friend Ken Annakin. The surname is of Germanic origin and probably means 'son of Anno' with Anno meaning 'eagle'.
You may not know anyone named Anakin, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 37 states are home to men and boys named Anakin. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Anakin living in one state or another. If your name is Anakin and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Nevada, which has the most people named Anakin relative to the population, you still have to ask 13,156 men and boys their names before you hear Anakin as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.
With six letters, the name Anakin 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 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.
If your name is Anakin 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 Anakin, you can simply say:
Apple
Nut
Apple
Koala
Igloo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Anakin
Anakin
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Anakin sounds like this: