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Akita

Akita is a surname from Japanese.

Original Japanese秋田

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Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Akita comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Akita through the years

Babies since 1880
152
0 boys · 152 girls
Most popular year
1978
15 babies
2025
0
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2021–25 vs 2016–20
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02.557.510198020002025Highest share 19780.0
Akita in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1973–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 1992. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 204 as a first name in 2020; 290 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Akita’s family of names

In English usage, Akita as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form अकिता. In English usage, Akita as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Japanese form 秋田. In Japanese usage, Akita as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 穐田.

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Akita穐田Akitta秋田अकिता

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

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Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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