Jabari
Jabari was given to 172 boys in 2025, #1,189 among boys’ names; 9,768 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,530 Americans named Jabari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 11 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jabari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jabari mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jabari is “a male given name from Swahili of modern African American usage.”
Borrowed from Swahili Jabari.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jabari?
#1,189 among boys’ names, 2025
Jabari fell from #948 in 2015 to #1,189 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.11 to 0.10 per 1,000.
393 babies in 2006, the peak
Jabari peaked in 2006, when 393 boys were given it, #609 among boys’ names. The 172 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 172 | #1,189 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 219 | #1,021 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 250 | #924 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 201 | #1,085 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 242 | #934 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 234 | #942 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 242 | #910 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 261 | #849 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 222 | #940 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 236 | #912 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 220 | #948 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 168 | #1,134 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 184 | #1,044 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 226 | #917 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 219 | #921 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 243 | #866 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 243 | #866 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 289 | #770 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 391 | #625 | 0.19 |
| 2006 | 393 | #609 | 0.19 |
| 2005 | 355 | #624 | 0.18 |
| 2004 | 346 | #618 | 0.17 |
| 2003 | 334 | #620 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 254 | #705 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 215 | #785 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 189 | #845 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 179 | #846 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 156 | #915 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 186 | #792 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 174 | #824 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 165 | #836 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 188 | #767 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 219 | #700 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 197 | #734 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 157 | #822 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 129 | #903 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 127 | #895 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 94 | #1,005 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 83 | #1,048 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 76 | #1,067 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 83 | #1,000 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 77 | #1,014 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 86 | #951 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 81 | #1,009 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 91 | #941 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 91 | #941 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 112 | #822 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 101 | #857 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 84 | #930 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 82 | #926 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 71 | #975 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 79 | #916 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 40 | #1,317 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,166 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,241 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jabari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jabari has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jabari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jabari, and how old are they?
9,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 9,768 Americans ever recorded as Jabari. The median Jabari alive today is 20 years old; half are between 11 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 6,849 people named Jabari (41 women and girls, 6,808 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,341 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 | 613 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,930 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,150 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,830 |
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).
Where are babies named Jabari born?
The states with the most babies named Jabari are Florida, New York and Maryland, with 37% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Maryland is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 17 | #861 | 1.8× |
| New York | 13 | #966 | 1.1× |
| Maryland | 13 | #398 | 1.8× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #800 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 10 | #875 | 2.8× |
| Texas | 10 | #1,695 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 10 | #700 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 9 | #897 | 1.6× |
| California | 7 | #2,076 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,166 | 0.5× |
Where Jabari is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jabari is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1971 it was given 2.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jabari with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,218 babies since 1880, Jabari is the most given (87% of them). In 2025 it was given to 172 of their 199 babies (86%), 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 Jabari
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 Jabari and names like it
- Compare Jabari and JabarriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJabari peaked in 2006.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jabari since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Jabari.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jabari alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.