Akula
surname · Latin script
Meaning: » Lalita (N); Parvati (K)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/əˈkuɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Akula is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 87K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 583K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 58K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Akula itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 194 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
15,198 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Aakula in IN India, FI Finland.
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)
» Lalita (N); Parvati (K)
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Akula 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 15,198 | 1 in 87K | 15K | Aakula | 133 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Akula | 4 |
| US United States | 571 | 1 in 583K | 1.2K | Akula | 194 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 485K | — | Akula | 6 |
| FI Finland | 311as Aakula | 1 in 18K | 311 | Aakula | 4 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Akula | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Akula | 5 |
15,198 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling akula. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Akula is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, Akula. 13-14th Centuries.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Hawaiian, direction away from the speaker, away
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Tatar, Latin spelling of акула (aqula)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In crh, shark
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lua, to speak, talk, utter.
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
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)
- Vikram Akulab. 1968INFounder of SKS Microfinance
- Venkataraju Akulab. 1968INbadminton player
- Sreeja Akulab. 1998INIndian table-tennis player
- Sonia AkulaINIndian actress
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1978 | 9 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1985 | 8 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1973 | 8 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1989 | 7 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1982 | 7 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1980 | 7 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1979 | 7 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1978 | 7 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1977 | 7 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1975 | 7 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1972 | 7 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1970 | 7 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Akula?
- A machine transcription gives /əˈkuɫə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Akula mean, and where does it come from?
- » Lalita (N); Parvati (K) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- In which country does Akula have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Akula, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aakula.
- How common is the name Akula?
- In India, the national register counted 15,198 people named Akula, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/akulaThe 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, “Akula”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.