Akash
A boys’ name of Sanskrit origin, meaning sky, space, ether.
Babies a year
49
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#4275
4 babies
Akash by the numbers
In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Akash. In the US, 49 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 117 babies in 2002, making it a 2000s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Akash. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean the sky or heaven
Like Akash, each of these has the sky or heaven in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
Names about as common as Akash
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