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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#166 · 1 in 578
- South Carolina#236 · 1 in 911
- Alabama#259 · 1 in 1,041
- Georgia#289 · 1 in 1,217
- North Carolina#342 · 1 in 1,504
Best ever in a state: #166 in Mississippi, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #166 | 19 | 1 in 578 |
| South Carolina | #236 | 23 | 1 in 911 |
| Alabama | #259 | 21 | 1 in 1,041 |
| Georgia | #289 | 42 | 1 in 1,217 |
| North Carolina | #342 | 34 | 1 in 1,504 |
| Tennessee | #398 | 20 | 1 in 1,813 |
| Louisiana | #404 | 12 | 1 in 1,640 |
| Virginia | #424 | 18 | 1 in 2,097 |
| Arkansas | #438 | 7 | 1 in 1,790 |
| Maryland | #491 | 10 | 1 in 2,333 |
| Ohio | #499 | 20 | 1 in 2,635 |
| Michigan | #506 | 16 | 1 in 2,499 |
| Florida | #509 | 35 | 1 in 2,732 |
| Kentucky | #552 | 7 | 1 in 2,910 |
| Illinois | #555 | 17 | 1 in 2,953 |
| Indiana | #576 | 11 | 1 in 2,918 |
| New Jersey | #624 | 11 | 1 in 3,630 |
| Missouri | #631 | 8 | 1 in 3,429 |
| Pennsylvania | #696 | 12 | 1 in 4,354 |
| Oklahoma | #706 | 5 | 1 in 3,512 |
| Wisconsin | #756 | 5 | 1 in 4,701 |
| Texas | #934 | 26 | 1 in 6,877 |
| New York | #1,095 | 11 | 1 in 7,862 |
| California | #1,526 | 11 | 1 in 16,387 |
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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 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 180,021 of them was named Jakari, which outranked 42.1% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,556Zoriana10
- #9,556Zuley10
- #9,556Zyaira10
- #10,271Jakari9
- #10,271Aaditri9
- #10,271Aafia9
- #10,271Aafiya9
- #11,122Aadriti8
- #11,122Aakifah8
- #11,122Aaliyana8
Tied with 850 names at #10,271; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 4,016 of them was named Jakari, which outranked 95.5% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.