Akkad
surname · Latin script
Meaning: One of the ancient kingdoms of Mesopotamia, located in northern Babylonia
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ækæd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Akkad is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 3.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 130K
- USUnited States1 in 2.8M
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.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, 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)
One of the ancient kingdoms of Mesopotamia, located in northern Babylonia.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | #277 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Akkad | 36 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Akkad | 36 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Akkad | 48 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Akkad | 33 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Akkad | 18 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Akkad | 37 |
| US United States | — | 119 | 1 in 2.8M | 871 | Akkad | 132 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Akkad | 15 |
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 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)
- Abbas el-Akkadb. 1889EGEgyptian writer (1889-1964)
- Malek Akkadb. 1969USFilm producer
- Omar El Akkadb. 1982EGEgyptian-Canadian novelist & journalist (1982-)
- Abdulrahman Akkadb. 1998SYSyrian blogger and LGBT activist
- Plestia Alaqadb. 2001PSnot in their usual namePalestinian journalist and author (born 2001)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 196 | #98,894 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 119 | #140,157 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 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).
- How do you pronounce Akkad?
- A machine transcription gives /ækæd/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- What are other forms of the name Akkad?
- In the etymology graph, Accad is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Akkad have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.2 thousand people named Akkad in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled akkad.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Akkad?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/akkadThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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 2026-10-10.