Jakari
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #612 for boys in 2025, 462 births
Given to boys 94.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 462 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,312since 1979
Jakari over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #14,942 | 5 | #612 | 462 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | #647 | 429 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #680 | 399 |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | #709 | 372 |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 | #814 | 298 |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 | #882 | 256 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #908 | 242 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #1,090 | 181 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 | #1,104 | 176 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | #1,208 | 156 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 | #1,297 | 137 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 | #1,436 | 115 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #1,387 | 121 |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 | #1,336 | 127 |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #1,173 | 151 |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | #1,214 | 146 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #1,331 | 130 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | #1,192 | 148 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #1,323 | 129 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #1,294 | 128 |
| 2005 | #8,330 | 13 | #1,162 | 137 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #1,231 | 123 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #1,438 | 91 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | #1,433 | 90 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #1,429 | 87 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #1,541 | 78 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #1,655 | 64 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #1,719 | 59 |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #1,991 | 45 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #2,218 | 37 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #2,762 | 26 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #2,766 | 26 |
| 1993 | — | #2,091 | 38 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,872 | 11 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,828 | 23 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,779 | 15 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
| 1988 | — | #6,426 | 6 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,521 | 13 | |
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| 1983 | — | #3,884 | 10 | |
| 1982 | — | #4,593 | 8 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,961 | 7 | |
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| 1979 | — | #4,068 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jakari! It came in at #4,068, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1980, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Jakari is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Georgia#421 · 1 in 2,237
- South Carolina#443 · 1 in 2,333
- Maryland#573 · 1 in 3,313
- Alabama#641 · 1 in 3,812
- Virginia#657 · 1 in 4,528
Best ever in a state: #166 in Mississippi, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Georgia | #421 | 24 | 1 in 2,237 |
| South Carolina | #443 | 9 | 1 in 2,333 |
| Maryland | #573 | 8 | 1 in 3,313 |
| Alabama | #641 | 6 | 1 in 3,812 |
| Virginia | #657 | 9 | 1 in 4,528 |
| Michigan | #752 | 9 | 1 in 5,158 |
| Florida | #787 | 16 | 1 in 6,042 |
| North Carolina | #787 | 9 | 1 in 5,703 |
| Ohio | #788 | 10 | 1 in 5,836 |
| Indiana | #915 | 5 | 1 in 6,890 |
| Pennsylvania | #945 | 7 | 1 in 8,315 |
| Illinois | #1,322 | 5 | 1 in 12,386 |
| Texas | #1,429 | 11 | 1 in 16,015 |
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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 Jakari
- 35 spots since 2024 (#647 → #612)
- 270 spots since 2020 (#882 → #612)
- 685 spots since 2015 (#1,297 → #612)
- Biggest jump: 182 spots in 2019 (#1,090 → #908)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2025 at #612 (462 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2019–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,697 boys born in 2025 were named Jakari (0.03%)
- 41.7% of all boys named Jakari (2,216) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 9 | #4,068 (1979) | #4,068 |
| 1980s | 50 | #3,521 (1987) | #5,054 |
| 1990s | 344 | #1,655 (1999) | #2,668 |
| 2000s | 1,141 | #1,162 (2005) | #1,337 |
| 2010s | 1,552 | #908 (2019) | #1,215 |
| 2020s | 2,216 | #612 (2025) | #724 |
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.
Jakari in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 123,319 of them was named Jakari, which outranked 57.5% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,442Zoa15
- #7,442Zula15
- #7,442Zyaira15
- #7,840Jakari14
- #7,840Aava14
- #7,840Aaylah14
- #7,840Abbi14
- #8,299Aala13
- #8,299Aamani13
- #8,299Aaryahi13
Tied with 458 names at #7,840; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 10,517 of them was named Jakari, which outranked 92.3% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).