Jabar — boys' name
444 babies named Jabar in U.S. Social Security records since 1971, with the highest year being 1977. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
28% of everyone ever named Jabar was born in this single decade.
21 babies were named Jabar in 1977 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jabar
The Social Security Administration has registered 444 babies named Jabar between 1971 and 2023, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jabar currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 21 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jabar performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 124 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Jabar shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 28 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jabar in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jabar in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 444 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Jabar at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jabar popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1971
- Peak year (1977)
- 21
- Annual births at peak — across 53 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
444 total births across 53 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1977 with 21 births in a single year.
Jabar by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 124 births that decade — 28% of Jabar's all-time total
Jabar decade highlights
- Peak decade 124 births
- Runner-up 107 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Jabar's strongest decade
124 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 28% of all-time use.
Jabar by state
Where Jabar concentrates geographically — total births since 1971
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 28 | 6.3% |
28 of 444 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 6.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 6.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1971–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.