Akina
Feminine
Japanese naming leans on the seasons more than any European tradition does. Haru is spring, natsu summer, aki autumn, fuyu winter, and each of them opens dozens of names. Akina is built on the autumn one.
How old is the name Akina?
Akina first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Akina alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 500 people named Akina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Akina most popular?
Akina peaked in 1976, reaching #3540 nationally. Today it ranks #9457, 5,917 places below that high. See the whole 1976 chart.
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Where it comes from
From aki to Akina
The story of Akina
Seasonal and natural imagery runs through Japanese naming in a way that has no close European parallel. Aki, autumn, opens Akiko, Akina, Akiho and Akira in some writings. Haru, spring, gives Haruka, Haruko and Haruto. Natsu, summer, gives Natsuki and Natsuko. Yuki can be snow or happiness depending on the character. Sakura is the cherry blossom, Kaede the maple, Ren the lotus, Sora the sky, Umi the sea. The preference reflects a literary culture in which the season is the organizing element of poetry: a haiku is expected to carry a kigo, a season word, and the standard reference works list thousands of them by season. A name carrying aki therefore sits inside a very large and very old system of seasonal reference, and the character chosen decides which part of it.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Akina is a Japanese name whose meaning depends on the characters chosen, which American records do not preserve. The aki element is most often written with the character for autumn, and also with those for bright or clear; na is a common ending written with characters for vegetable, greens or a purely phonetic one. The American peak is 1976.
How the name formed
- aki
- Akina
Related forms: Akina · Akena
Pronouncing Akina
ah-KEE-nah
Three syllables. Japanese uses pitch rather than stress, so English speakers add an emphasis the original does not have. Every vowel is short and clear.
Nicknames for Akina
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1975
- Most girls named
- 201127 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3540reached in 1976
- Change vs 2024
- +11.1%10 in 2025, from 9
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Akina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Akina in Japanese — same name
- Akena in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida.
Akinas among us
people named Akina are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 160,727 born in 2025 was named Akina
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Daralyn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Akina's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Daralyn climbed just as high around 1958, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Daralyn's path sketches the road Akina is walking now.
Akina sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Akina beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Akina in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Aki works as a short form and is a name in its own right.
- Three open syllables, easy for English speakers.
- The vowels are clear and unambiguous.
- The meaning depends on characters the record does not preserve.
- English speakers impose a stress pattern Japanese does not have.
- It is close to Akira and Alina in sound.
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Frequently asked
- How many Akinas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Akina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Akina in 2025?
- Akina ranks #9457 among US girl names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Akina?
- About 1 in every 160,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Akina — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Akina with classmates?
- Akina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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