Akila

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.

Akila is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, India, United States, Spain

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Ákila, Akilā, Ãkïlā

• French given name7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Algeria, United States, Tunisia

  Also written Àkila, Aķila, Akíla, Äkïlä, Ákila

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Ákila, Akilā

• Finnish given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Malaysia, United States, Algeria

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Aķilă, Akilâ

• Amharic given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Nigeria, Ethiopia

  Also written አክላ, አኪላ

35 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.

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 name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In Russian, "eagle."

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In Latvian, sala Īrijas rietumos (Achill), Mejo (Muijo) grāfistē

  as a word·Tēzaurs.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.

• 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).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

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

What does the name Akila mean, and where does it come from?

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Is Akila a male or female name?

Akila is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (IBGE), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), India (India Names Dataset) and France (INSEE, 2023).

In which country does Akila have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 68 thousand people named Akila in India, 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.