Bakari
#1,728 for boys in 2025, 94 births
- Peak · boys
- 1978 · 33 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,687since 1973
Bakari over time
Rank among boys' names. Bakari has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,728 | 94 |
| 2024 | #1,878 | 85 |
| 2023 | #2,387 | 57 |
| 2022 | #2,493 | 55 |
| 2021 | #2,523 | 52 |
| 2020 | #2,689 | 46 |
| 2019 | #2,943 | 41 |
| 2018 | #2,189 | 63 |
| 2017 | #3,006 | 39 |
| 2016 | #4,098 | 25 |
| 2015 | #4,080 | 25 |
| 2014 | #4,392 | 22 |
| 2013 | #4,981 | 18 |
| 2012 | #3,807 | 27 |
| 2011 | #6,256 | 13 |
| 2010 | #3,531 | 30 |
| 2009 | #3,721 | 28 |
| 2008 | #3,221 | 35 |
| 2007 | #3,793 | 27 |
| 2006 | #4,223 | 22 |
| 2005 | #3,447 | 28 |
| 2004 | #3,158 | 31 |
| 2003 | #3,528 | 25 |
| 2002 | #2,685 | 35 |
| 2001 | #2,797 | 33 |
| 2000 | #3,299 | 25 |
| 1999 | #2,939 | 28 |
| 1998 | #2,012 | 47 |
| 1997 | #2,396 | 34 |
| 1996 | #2,183 | 38 |
| 1995 | #2,055 | 40 |
| 1994 | #2,618 | 28 |
| 1993 | #2,399 | 31 |
| 1992 | #2,834 | 24 |
| 1991 | #1,983 | 38 |
| 1990 | #2,308 | 30 |
| 1989 | #2,469 | 26 |
| 1988 | #2,682 | 21 |
| 1987 | #2,468 | 22 |
| 1986 | #2,779 | 18 |
| 1985 | #2,710 | 18 |
| 1984 | #2,613 | 18 |
| 1983 | #2,493 | 19 |
| 1982 | #2,269 | 22 |
| 1981 | #2,138 | 24 |
| 1980 | #2,284 | 22 |
| 1979 | #2,568 | 18 |
| 1978 | #1,652 | 33 |
| 1977 | #1,823 | 28 |
| 1976 | #1,781 | 28 |
| 1975 | #2,001 | 23 |
| 1974 | #2,129 | 20 |
| 1973 | #3,694 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Bakari! It came in at #3,694, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973, when fewer than 9 boys a year got the name.
Where Bakari is popular in 1991
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Florida#1,052 · 1 in 17,807
- California#2,175 · 1 in 57,569
Best ever in a state: #420 in South Carolina, 1982.
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| Florida | #1,052 | 5 | 1 in 17,807 |
| California | #2,175 | 5 | 1 in 57,569 |
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See more about Bakari
- 150 spots since 2024 (#1,878 → #1,728)
- 961 spots since 2020 (#2,689 → #1,728)
- 2,352 spots since 2015 (#4,080 → #1,728)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1978 at #1,652 (33 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 33 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,171 boys born in 2025 were named Bakari (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,652 in 1978, was only 1 in 49,753 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 23.1% of all boys named Bakari (389) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 158 | #1,652 (1978) | #2,235 |
| 1980s | 210 | #2,138 (1981) | #2,491 |
| 1990s | 338 | #1,983 (1991) | #2,373 |
| 2000s | 289 | #2,685 (2002) | #3,387 |
| 2010s | 303 | #2,189 (2018) | #3,928 |
| 2020s | 389 | #1,728 (2025) | #2,283 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Bakari in 1991
Top boys' names in 1991
More about 1991
boys
2,020,328 boys got a published name in 1991; 1 in 53,167 of them was named Bakari, which outranked 79.4% of the 9,648 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,952Weldon39
- #1,952Whitney39
- #1,952Zebulon39
- #1,983Bakari38
- #1,983Ashwin38
- #1,983Avi38
- #1,983Bjorn38
- #2,019Abran37
- #2,019Alen37
- #2,019Aramis37
Tied with 35 names at #1,983; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.