Aqil
Aqil is a name with multiple cultural origins: Arabic, Urdu.
- Arabic
- Urdu
Meaning & Origin of Aqil
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Aqil is a name with multiple cultural origins: Arabic, Urdu.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Arabic
- Urdu
The Story of Aqil
Aqil first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1993, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1999: 8 births, good for #7,138 nationwide. About 39% of every Aqil on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Aqil last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 8 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 74 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Aqil
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Names that sound like Aqil
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About the name Aqil
Aqil is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1993 and has accumulated 74 births in the dataset. Aqil's peak popularity came in 1999 when it ranked #7,138. Use the chart and map above to compare Aqil's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.