Jabar
Jabar was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,194 among boys’ names; 450 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jabar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jabar?
#11,194 among boys’ names, 2025
Jabar entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #11,194 in 2025.
21 babies in 1977, the peak
Jabar peaked in 1977, when 21 boys were given it, #2,234 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,194 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,384 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,823 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,175 | 4.3 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,787 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,065 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 5 | #13,060 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,274 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,533 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 10 | #7,915 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | #12,773 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,594 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,348 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,422 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,740 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,703 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,430 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,261 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,581 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,734 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,623 | 6.8 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,446 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,959 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,895 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,843 | 7.3 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,127 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,952 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,147 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,872 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,869 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,495 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 16 | #2,893 | 8.8 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,110 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,712 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,664 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,287 | 7.3 |
| 1977 | 21 | #2,234 | 12.8 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,753 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,523 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 19 | #2,227 | 12.1 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,440 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,476 | 9.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,240 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jabar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jabar has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jabar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jabar, and how old are they?
An estimated 427 Americans named Jabar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 23 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 450 people named Jabar (4 women and girls, 446 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 421 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,080 babies since 1880, Jabar is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 35 babies (17%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Jabar
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 Jabar and names like it
- Compare Jabar and JabbarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJabar peaked in 1977.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jabar since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Jabar.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jabar alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.