Jak

Where Jak comes from

The dictionaries list Jak as a given name — a male given name of rare usage, variant of Jack — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1994
    First appearance
    #7,770 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2014
    Peak, #3,234
    34 babies named Jak — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2020
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #5,235.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name of rare usage, variant of Jack
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Jak hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.