Jabari

#1,188 for boys in 2025, 172 births

Peak · boys
2006 · 393 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
9,768
since 1971

Jabari over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Jabari has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201971peak #608, 2006boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#1,188172
2024#1,019219
2023#921250
2022#1,084201
2021#933242
2020#942234
2019#908242
2018#849261
2017#940222
2016#911236
2015#947220
2014#1,133168
2013#1,043184
2012#916226
2011#919219
2010#865243
2009#866243
2008#769289
2007#625391
2006#608393
2005#624355
2004#618346
2003#620334
2002#703254
2001#784215
2000#845189
1999#844179
1998#916156
1997#793186
1996#825174
1995#837165
1994#768188
1993#701219
1992#736197
1991#826157
1990#907129
1989#898127
1988#1,00394
1987#1,04783
1986#1,06776
1985#99883
1984#1,01277
1983#94986
1982#1,00681
1981#93891
1980#93891
1979#821112
1978#854101
1977#92884
1976#92182
1975#97071
1974#91479
1973#1,31240
1972#3,9637
1971#4,9075
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First appearance
1971

The first year at least five boys were named Jabari! It came in at #4,907, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1971–1972, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.

Where Jabari is popular in 1971

No state had 5 or more boys named Jabari in 1971, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Jabari
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 169 spots since 2024 (#1,019 → #1,188)
  • 246 spots since 2020 (#942 → #1,188)
  • 241 spots since 2015 (#947 → #1,188)
  • Biggest jump: 398 spots in 1974 (#1,312 → #914)
  • Biggest drop: 151 spots in 2022 (#933 → #1,084)
Rise & fade · boys
35 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1971
  • Peaked 2006 at #608 (393 births)
  • Births halved by 2013, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 42 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 42 yrs · run 1989–2012
Share of babies · boys
1 in 5,230
  • Highest: 1 in 5,230 boys born in 2006 were named Jabari (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 9,931 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 30.8% of all boys named Jabari (3,009) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s581#821 (1979)#1,732
1980s889#898 (1989)#986
1990s1,750#701 (1993)#815
2000s3,009#608 (2006)#706
2010s2,221#849 (2018)#943
2020s1,318#921 (2023)#1,015

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.

Jabari in 1971

boys
#4,907
5 births · 1 in 353,689 boys

Top boys' names in 1971

  1. #1Michael77,577
  2. #2James54,597
  3. #3David53,113
  4. #4John51,512
  5. #5Robert50,634
  6. #6Christopher48,225
  7. #7William35,413
  8. #8Jason34,173
  9. #9Brian32,624
  10. #10Scott30,901
  11. #4,907Jabari5
More about 1971

boys

1,768,447 boys got a published name in 1971; 1 in 353,689 of them was named Jabari, which outranked 13.2% of the 5,655 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jabari
  1. #4,375Zarak6
  2. #4,375Zebulon6
  3. #4,375Zerick6
  4. #4,907Jabari5
  5. #4,907Abdel5
  6. #4,907Abiel5
  7. #4,907Achille5

Tied with 748 names at #4,907; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1970
Risers
  1. ↑ 754Germaine#1,582 → #828
  2. ↑ 626Jeramie#1,546 → #920
  3. ↑ 512Jeremey#1,396 → #884
  4. ↑ 473Jarod#1,337 → #864
  5. ↑ 454Jamel#1,374 → #920
Fallers
  1. ↓ 328Adolph#926 → #1,254
  2. ↓ 272Dwane#1,000 → #1,272
  3. ↓ 266Bronson#861 → #1,127
  4. ↓ 244Mitch#921 → #1,165
  5. ↓ 242Enrico#839 → #1,081

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1971 →