Bakari
Bakari was given to 94 boys in 2025, #1,729 among boys’ names; 1,687 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,640 Americans named Bakari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 7 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bakari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bakari?
#1,729 among boys’ names, 2025
Bakari rose from #4,087 in 2015 to #1,729 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 13.0 to 55.0 per million.
94 babies in 2025, the peak
Bakari peaked in 2025, when 94 boys were given it, #1,729 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 85 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94 | #1,729 | 55.0 |
| 2024 | 85 | #1,882 | 49.3 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,390 | 33.3 |
| 2022 | 55 | #2,494 | 31.5 |
| 2021 | 52 | #2,527 | 29.7 |
| 2020 | 46 | #2,692 | 26.7 |
| 2019 | 41 | #2,943 | 22.9 |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,188 | 34.7 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,012 | 21.1 |
| 2016 | 25 | #4,108 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #4,087 | 13.0 |
| 2014 | 22 | #4,404 | 11.5 |
| 2013 | 18 | #4,994 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 27 | #3,812 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,285 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,539 | 15.6 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,730 | 14.1 |
| 2008 | 35 | #3,226 | 17.2 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,797 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,233 | 10.7 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,455 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 31 | #3,161 | 15.6 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,537 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 35 | #2,688 | 18.0 |
| 2001 | 33 | #2,804 | 17.0 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,302 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,943 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,012 | 24.6 |
| 1997 | 34 | #2,398 | 18.0 |
| 1996 | 38 | #2,183 | 20.1 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,053 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 28 | #2,618 | 14.5 |
| 1993 | 31 | #2,400 | 15.8 |
| 1992 | 24 | #2,837 | 12.0 |
| 1991 | 38 | #1,979 | 18.8 |
| 1990 | 30 | #2,313 | 14.6 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,474 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 21 | #2,688 | 11.0 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,473 | 11.8 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,787 | 9.8 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,721 | 9.7 |
| 1984 | 18 | #2,619 | 10.0 |
| 1983 | 19 | #2,499 | 10.6 |
| 1982 | 22 | #2,276 | 12.1 |
| 1981 | 24 | #2,140 | 13.4 |
| 1980 | 22 | #2,286 | 12.3 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,585 | 10.5 |
| 1978 | 33 | #1,657 | 20.1 |
| 1977 | 28 | #1,826 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 28 | #1,783 | 17.8 |
| 1975 | 23 | #2,007 | 14.7 |
| 1974 | 20 | #2,132 | 12.7 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,730 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bakari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bakari has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bakari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bakari, and how old are they?
1,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,687 Americans ever recorded as Bakari. The median Bakari alive today is 21 years old; half are between 7 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 1,133 people named Bakari (34 women and girls, 1,099 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,276 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 164 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 397 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 460 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 618 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,883 babies since 1880, Bakari is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 94 of their 104 babies (90%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bakari
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Bakari and names like it
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