Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Aqil comes from Arabic, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1993. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aqil through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 79
- 79 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1999
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,170 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,170 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 221 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Aqil
- Agil Mammadovfootballerborn 1989
- Agil NabiyevAzerbaijani footballerborn 1982
- Agil MammadovAzerbaijani football player and managerborn 1972
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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