Akkad

surname · Latin script

Meaning: One of the ancient kingdoms of Mesopotamia, located in northern Babylonia (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/ˈæˌkæd/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary

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Akkad is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country. Akkad is also written Аккад in Cyrillic.

  • SYSyria≈1 in 3.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 20Kfew records
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 30Kfew records

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 Akkad 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.

Syria (inferred from the name graph)

≈6,800 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
132 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Syria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Akkad in other scripts: Cyrillic

(measured from records)
AkkadLatin(measured from records)
АккадAkkad in Cyrillic(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.

How to pronounce Akkad

  • English:/ˈæˌkæd/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
  • Turkish:/akːˈad/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

One of the ancient kingdoms of Mesopotamia, located in northern Babylonia.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where the surname Akkad is found

(measured from records)

Akkad 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 Akkad is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SY Syria#277≈6,800 est.≈1 in 3.6K—Akkad36
SA Saudi Arabia—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 20K—Akkad36
EG Egypt—≈1,600 est.≈1 in 73K—Akkad48
MA Morocco—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 36K—Akkad33
AE United Arab Emirates—≈360 est.≈1 in 30K—Akkad37
US United States—1191 in 2.8M871Akkad132
KW Kuwait—≈73 est.≈1 in 67K—Akkad15

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)

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

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Syria, Türkiye, India

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

37 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)

Akkad is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, ancient Asian region

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Czech, Akkad (capital city of the kingdom of Akkad)

    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)
1850190019502000Abbas el-Akkad, b. 1889Malek Akkad, b. 1969Abdulrahman Akkad, b. 1998

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).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalDear Akkad,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Akkad mean, and where does it come from?
One of the ancient kingdoms of Mesopotamia, located in northern Babylonia. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Akkad?
In the etymology graph, Accad is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Akkad?
It depends on the language: in English /ˈæˌkæd/ (Wiktionary); in Turkish /akːˈad/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Akkad?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.8 thousand people named Akkad in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled akkad. After it come Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco and United Arab Emirates; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Akkad?
In the United States, the national register counted 119 people named Akkad in 2010, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
How common is Akkad compared with other names?
In Syria, Akkad is the 277th most common surname of 190,062 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Akkad” — the 277th most common surname in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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