Akhil

For the 2015 Indian Telugu-language film, see Akhil (film).

Akhil

Pronunciation	अखिल
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Sanskrit and other languages of India
Meaning	"entire", "whole"
Region of origin	India
Other names
Related names	Nikhil, Akhila

Akhil (in Devanagari: अखिल, IAST: akhila) is a given name of Sanskrit origin, meaning 'entire' or 'whole'. The equivalent feminine name is Akhila (IAST: akhilā).

People with this name include:

• Akhil (singer) (born 1990), Indian actor, singer, and songwriter
• Akhil (Tamil actor), Indian actor in Tamil cinema
• Akhil (Telugu actor), Indian actor in Telugu cinema
• Akhil Akkineni, American-born Indian actor
• Akhil Amar (born 1958), Indian-American legal scholar
• Akhil Chandra Banerjea, Indian virologist
• Akhil Datta-Gupta, American academic
• Akhil George, Indian cinematographer
• Akhil Giri, Indian politician
• Akhil Gogoi (born 1976), Indian political activist
• Akhil Gupta (born 1959), Indian anthropologist
• Akhil Herwadkar, Indian cricketer
• Akhil Iyer, Indian actor
• Akhil Kapur, Indian actor
• Akhil Katyal, Indian poet, translator, and queer activist
• Akhil Kumar (born 1981), Indian boxer
• Akhil Maheshwari, American neonatologist
• Akhil Mehta (1987–2015), Indian businessman
• Akhil Mishra, Indian actor
• Akhil Niyogi, Indian Bengali-language children's writer and editor
• Akhil Patel, English cricketer
• Akhil Rabindra (born 1996), Indian racing driver
• Akhil Rajput, Indian cricketer
• Akhil Ranjan Chakravarty, Indian organic chemist
• Akhil Reed Amar, American legal scholar
• Akhil Sachdeva, Indian musician
• Akhil Sharma (born 1971), Indian writer

See also

• Akilan (1922–1998), Indian writer of Tamil literature
• Akhila (disambiguation), the feminine equivalent of Akhil
• Central Cee, a British rapper who claimed to have legally changed his name to Akhil after converting to Islam.