Bakary
Bakary was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,266 among boys’ names; 142 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bakary by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bakary?
#12,266 among boys’ names, 2025
Bakary fell from #7,545 in 2015 to #12,266 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 2.9 per million.
12 babies in 2010, the peak
Bakary peaked in 2010, when 12 boys were given it, #6,724 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,266 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,983 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,572 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,750 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,992 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,744 | 6.6 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,545 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,856 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,074 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,602 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #12,485 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,724 | 6.3 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,087 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 8 | #8,999 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,804 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,643 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,534 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,416 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,516 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bakary a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bakary has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bakary: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bakary, and how old are they?
An estimated 141 Americans named Bakary and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 388 people named Bakary (5 women and girls, 383 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 120 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Bakary?
Bakary is a less common spelling of Bakari: SSA has recorded 142 Bakary and 1,687 Bakari since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,883 babies since 1880, Bakary is the second most given (7.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 104 babies (4.8%), again the second 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 Bakary
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 Bakary and names like it
- Compare Bakary and BakariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBakary peaked in 2010.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bakary since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Bakary.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Bakary alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.