aka
abbreviation
also known as: (used to indicate another name or alias used by a person).
aka
American
[ey-key-ey]
/ ˈeɪˈkeɪˈeɪ /
Or
a.k.a.,
abbreviation
a.k.a.
1
British
abbreviation
aka
2
British
/ ˈɑːkə /
noun
aka
Cultural
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The abbreviation, which also appears as AKA and a.k.a., is often used figuratively and facetiously: “my cousin, aka the worst gossip in the neighborhood.”
Etymology
Origin of aka
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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The Duffys also visit the Free States of Taylor Sheridania, aka Wyoming and Montana, in an episode where their young son, Patrick, is taken to the hospital after suffering abdominal pain.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Prosecutors on Thursday played the 2008 interview Davis conducted with Los Angeles Police detectives Daryn Dupree and Greg Kading, who were investigating the death of another rapper, Chris Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
This week Quentin Fottrell, aka the Moneyist, helped a woman whose 99-year-old grandmother wants to cut her only child — the letter writer’s mother — out of her will.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
The Times first identified the pilot in May as Mauro Alberto Núñez Ojeda, aka “Jando.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
I’m sitting here trying not to expire of totalicus boredumus while Mrs. Mears explains the life cycle of the royal walnut moth, aka Citheronia regalis, aka kill me now.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
Locke made his franchise debut as William Kaplan, a.k.a.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
He was diagnosed with Stage 3 colon cancer in 2016, the same year he made his debut as comics superhero T’Challa, a.k.a. the Black Panther, in “Captain America: Civil War.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Make it a work day in Elysian Valley, a.k.a.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Travel writer Christopher Reynolds, a.k.a. the person in the newsroom that everyone goes to for trip advice, tells me, “With its clock tower, big arches and high ceilings, Union Station feels like a secular church.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
He generally met us at the usual tree, a.k.a. his office.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
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