Jak

Peak · boys
2014 · 34 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
542
since 1994

Jak over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Jak has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #3,234, 2014boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#4,53922
2024#4,07226
2023#4,45623
2022#3,99527
2021#3,49732
2020#5,23517
2019#3,79428
2018#4,22624
2017#4,22424
2016#4,77620
2015#3,43132
2014#3,23434
2013#4,62120
2012#4,13124
2011#5,20017
2010#4,84819
2009#4,42922
2008#3,34433
2007#4,99618
2006#4,86518
2005#6,22612
2004#5,81313
2003#6,71510
2002#8,4567
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First appearance
1994

The first year at least five boys were named Jak! It came in at #7,770, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1995–1996, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Jak is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more boys named Jak in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Jak
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 467 spots since 2024 (#4,072 → #4,539)
  • 696 spots since 2020 (#5,235 → #4,539)
  • 1,108 spots since 2015 (#3,431 → #4,539)
Rise & fade · boys
20 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1994
  • Peaked 2014 at #3,234 (34 births)
  • Births halved by 2020, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 54,671
  • Highest: 1 in 54,671 boys born in 2021 were named Jak (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 77,640 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #3,234 in 2014, was only 1 in 56,496 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 44.6% of all boys named Jak (242) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s12#7,770 (1994)#7,940
2000s141#3,344 (2008)#5,807
2010s242#3,234 (2014)#4,249
2020s147#3,497 (2021)#4,299

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.

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