Akila
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Akila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Arabic: wise.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 739(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 314K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 9.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Akila itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 210 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 739 (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Arabic: wise
Sources 1
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Where in the world(measured from records)
Akila counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | #107 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 739 | — | Akila | 57 |
| BR Brazil | — | 4,714as Aquila | 1 in 45K | 4.7K | — | 1 |
| DZ Algeria | #563 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | listed | Akila | 27 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 59K | listed | Akila | 26 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 505 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 1,060 | 1 in 314K | 187K | Akila | 210 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the dz-kaggle-names register; the masakhane register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Akila is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ) Akilah: in Kenia und Tansania vorkommender weibl. Vom., der auf Suaheli »intelHgent« bedeutet (< arab. ‘äqil »intelH- gent«). nAkim: männl. Vom., nordische Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Russian, "eagle."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Latvian, sala Īrijas rietumos (Achill), Mejo (Muijo) grāfistē
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Akila Mouhoubib. 1953DZAlgerian peinter (born 1953)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1K | #7,032 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 977 | #9,357 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 973 | #11,917 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 809 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 757 | #5,552 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2023 | 505 | #2,456 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 267 | #7,032 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 251 | #9,966 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 127 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 87 | #11,917 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Akila mean, and where does it come from?
- Arabic: wise Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Akila a male or female name?
- Akila is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Akila have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Akila in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled akila.
- How common is the name Akila?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,060 people named Akila in 2020, about 1 in 314 thousand residents.
- How common is Akila compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Akila is the 107th most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/akilaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Akila” — the 107th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.