Jakai
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #12,161 · #569 for boys in 2025, 519 births
Given to boys 95.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 519 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,059since 1994
Jakai over time
Rank among boys' names. Jakai has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #569 | 519 | |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #646 | 430 |
| 2023 | — | #730 | 363 | |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #804 | 312 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #924 | 245 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #1,084 | 183 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #1,177 | 164 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #1,207 | 155 |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 | #1,408 | 124 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #1,450 | 119 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 | #1,346 | 130 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #1,506 | 107 |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #1,670 | 90 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #1,637 | 94 |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 | #1,385 | 120 |
| 2010 | #8,271 | 14 | #1,626 | 96 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #1,390 | 122 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #1,775 | 84 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #1,593 | 98 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | #1,698 | 83 |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 | #1,485 | 97 |
| 2004 | — | #1,911 | 64 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #1,781 | 67 |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 | #1,869 | 60 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #3,061 | 29 |
| 2000 | — | #3,423 | 24 | |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #3,704 | 20 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #4,019 | 17 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #3,160 | 23 |
| 1996 | — | #7,136 | 7 | |
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
| 1994 | — | #6,968 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jakai! It came in at #6,968, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1994–1996, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Jakai is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#212 · 1 in 815
- Louisiana#266 · 1 in 1,007
- Missouri#291 · 1 in 1,209
- Georgia#302 · 1 in 1,225
- Wisconsin#317 · 1 in 1,378
Best ever in a state: #165 in Delaware, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #212 | 26 | 1 in 815 |
| Louisiana | #266 | 19 | 1 in 1,007 |
| Missouri | #291 | 23 | 1 in 1,209 |
| Georgia | #302 | 41 | 1 in 1,225 |
| Wisconsin | #317 | 17 | 1 in 1,378 |
| Florida | #361 | 54 | 1 in 1,769 |
| Mississippi | #370 | 8 | 1 in 1,355 |
| Indiana | #379 | 19 | 1 in 1,666 |
| Nevada | #389 | 7 | 1 in 1,613 |
| Illinois | #400 | 27 | 1 in 1,835 |
| Alabama | #450 | 11 | 1 in 1,956 |
| North Carolina | #461 | 23 | 1 in 2,238 |
| Virginia | #473 | 16 | 1 in 2,328 |
| Pennsylvania | #489 | 20 | 1 in 2,613 |
| Ohio | #513 | 20 | 1 in 2,627 |
| Arkansas | #555 | 5 | 1 in 2,517 |
| Michigan | #571 | 14 | 1 in 2,871 |
| Kansas | #590 | 5 | 1 in 2,809 |
| Tennessee | #592 | 12 | 1 in 3,064 |
| Texas | #622 | 49 | 1 in 3,572 |
| Kentucky | #625 | 6 | 1 in 3,423 |
| New Jersey | #655 | 10 | 1 in 3,977 |
| New York | #692 | 21 | 1 in 4,020 |
| Arizona | #781 | 7 | 1 in 4,675 |
| Minnesota | #807 | 5 | 1 in 4,900 |
| Colorado | #849 | 5 | 1 in 5,370 |
| California | #1,364 | 13 | 1 in 13,498 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jakai
- 77 spots since 2024 (#646 → #569)
- 515 spots since 2020 (#1,084 → #569)
- 777 spots since 2015 (#1,346 → #569)
- Biggest jump: 160 spots in 2021 (#1,084 → #924)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2025 at #569 (519 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2021–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,291 boys born in 2025 were named Jakai (0.03%)
- 50.6% of all boys named Jakai (2,052) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 80 | #3,160 (1997) | #5,463 |
| 2000s | 728 | #1,390 (2009) | #1,999 |
| 2010s | 1,199 | #1,177 (2019) | #1,441 |
| 2020s | 2,052 | #569 (2025) | #793 |
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.
Jakai in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 3,291 of them was named Jakai, which outranked 95.9% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.