Jabbar
Jabbar was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,195 among boys’ names; 752 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jabbar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jabbar?
#11,195 among boys’ names, 2025
Jabbar fell from #9,965 in 2015 to #11,195 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 3.7 to 3.5 per million.
76 babies in 1972, the peak
Jabbar peaked in 1972, when 76 boys were given it, #918 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,195 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,975 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,416 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,436 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,043 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,305 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,131 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,122 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,258 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,965 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 9 | #8,399 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,741 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,998 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 5 | #13,061 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,117 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,570 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,558 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,286 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,274 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,125 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,307 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,128 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,941 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,185 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,547 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,792 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,002 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,852 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,593 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,110 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,628 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,896 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,664 | 8.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,520 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,056 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,858 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,417 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 15 | #3,256 | 8.0 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,050 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,084 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,472 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,304 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 20 | #2,464 | 11.0 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,617 | 10.0 |
| 1980 | 29 | #1,924 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,502 | 11.0 |
| 1978 | 27 | #1,890 | 16.4 |
| 1977 | 37 | #1,524 | 22.5 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,454 | 11.5 |
| 1975 | 28 | #1,764 | 17.9 |
| 1974 | 27 | #1,763 | 17.2 |
| 1973 | 30 | #1,599 | 19.2 |
| 1972 | 76 | #918 | 46.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jabbar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jabbar 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 Jabbar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jabbar, and how old are they?
An estimated 709 Americans named Jabbar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 25 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 645 people named Jabbar (4 women and girls, 641 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 689 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below 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, Jabbar is the most given (36% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 35 babies (17%), the third 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 Jabbar
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 Jabbar and names like it
- Compare Jabbar and JabarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJabbar peaked in 1972.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jabbar since 1910.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Jabbar.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jabbar alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.