Akash
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Akash is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 87th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Sanskrit आकाश (ākāśa).
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 855(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 6.1K
- USUnited States1 in 85K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- #789 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 319 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 855 (inferred from the name graph)
≈190,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Aakash in AE United Arab Emirates.
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)
Borrowed from Sanskrit आकाश (ākāśa).
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Akash 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #87 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 855 | listed | Akash | 88 |
| PK Pakistan | #628 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Akash | 57 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Akash | 60 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #386 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Akash | 25 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Akash | 28 |
| US United States | — | 3,912 | 1 in 85K | 3.9K | Akash | 319 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Aakash | 46 |
| GY Guyana | #492 | 174 | 1 in 4.3K | 174 | Akash | 3 |
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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Akash is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The sky and the cosmos.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Akashdeep Saigalb. 1974INnot in their usual nameIndian actor
- Akash Choolunb. 1978MUfootballer
- Akash Dasnayakb. 1980INpolitician from Odisha, India
- Akash Pandurang Fundkarb. 1983INIndian politician
- Aakash Gandhib. 1985USnot in their usual nameAmerican composer
- Akash Thosarb. 1994INIndian actor
- Akash Shermanb. 1995CAa film director who sold the script for his first film when he was 19 years old
- Cameron Gregoryb. 2000GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player
- Akash Vukotib. 2009USAmerican child prodigy and spelling competitor
- Akash KhuranaINIndian Bollywood actor, writer, media personality
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 50 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Akash mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Sanskrit आकाश (ākāśa). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Akash a male or female name?
- Akash is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Akash have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 190 thousand people named Akash in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled akash.
- How common is the name Akash?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,912 people named Akash in 2020, about 1 in 85 thousand residents.
- How common is Akash compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Akash is the 87th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Akash?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/akashThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Akash” — the 87th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.