What Does AKA Mean? - Cyber Definitions

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What Does AKA Mean in a Text?

home▸search a▸AKA AKA means "Also Known As." It is used to introduce an alias. It is most often used by law-enforcement officials to notify of a criminal's false and alternative identity. For example:

Simon Jones, AKA Simon Adams, is armed and dangerous.

AKA can also be used in similar way to "i.e." (id est in Latin, which translates best as "that is" but used to mean "in other words"). For example:

Terry Baxter, AKA the best-looking flirt in town, will be there so leave your daughters at home.

AKA can also be written aka or a.k.a. The business equivalent of AKA is DBA (Doing Business As), which is a legal term to show that a trading name is not the legal name of the person who owns the business. (DBA is also seen as "o/a" (Operating As) or "t/a" (Trading As).)

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When I write AKA, I mean this:

AKA is most often used by law-enforcement.

Summary of Key Points

AKA
Definition:	Also Known As
Type:	Abbreviation
Guessability:	1: Easy to guess
Typical Users:	Adults and Teenagers

An Academic Look at AKA

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AKA is classified as an initialism abbreviation, as it is pronounced one letter at a time. Initialisms are different to acronyms, which are abbreviations spoken as words.