Aksa

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Aksa is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese given name2.8K records spelled Aksa5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, India

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Aksá, Akşa

• Finnish given name313 records spelled Aksa3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, India, Estonia

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Aksha

• Danish given name110 records spelled Aksa9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Denmark, Norway

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål

  Also written Achsah

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Aksa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Esperanto, of or relating to an axle

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Over time●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 24 years between 1955–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Kaisa Merib. 1898FInot in their usual nameFinnish writer (1898–1977)
• Aksa Korttilab. 1990FIFinnish 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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 177 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aksa?

We estimate roughly 515 people bear Aksa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Aksa have the most bearers?

Aksa is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled aksa.

Where is Aksa most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aksa is densest in Albania — about 1 in 28 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.

Is Aksa a male or female name?

Aksa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.