Akara

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Akara is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A bean cake, made of fried black-eyed pea flour.

rarermore common
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 74K(inferred from the name graph)
  • KEKenya≈1 in 334K
  • INIndia≈1 in 3.4M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,900 people, est.

Sources
58 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)

Nigeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A bean cake, made of fried black-eyed pea flour.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Akara 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.

Where Akara is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria≈2,900 est.≈1 in 74K—Akara26
IN India≈390 est.≈1 in 3.4M2Akara5
KE Kenya≈160 est.≈1 in 334K—Akara5
US United States≈35 est.≈1 in 9.4M5Akara58
DE Germany≈7 est.≈1 in 11M—Akara5
ES Spain51 in 10M5—6

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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Akara is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai given name54 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Laos, Finland

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Akira, อัครา, อคิราห์, Aki, อคิรา

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Akara is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Annapirna (N); Bhavani (N)

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • Siirya (N); Siva (N)

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • feminine of आकर

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • Indra (५)

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • Siva (N)

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Akara
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—5#168,693
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Akara mean, and where does it come from?
A bean cake, made of fried black-eyed pea flour. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Akara have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Akara in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled akara.
How common is the name Akara?
In Spain, the national register counted 5 people named Akara, about 1 in 10 million residents.

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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, “Akara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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