Jahari
Jahari was given to 100 boys in 2025, #1,666 among boys’ names; 2,095 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,070 Americans named Jahari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jahari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jahari?
#1,666 among boys’ names, 2025
Jahari rose from #2,417 in 2015 to #1,666 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 27.7 to 58.5 per million.
112 babies in 2023, the peak
Jahari peaked in 2023, when 112 babies were given it (98 boys, #1,714 among boys’ names). The 100 births of 2025 are 89% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 100 | #1,666 | |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,261 | 75 | #2,037 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,796 | 98 | #1,714 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,742 | 64 | #2,255 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,407 | 88 | #1,794 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,144 | 86 | #1,771 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,894 | 70 | #2,068 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,106 | 68 | #2,092 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,252 | 78 | #1,873 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,582 | 64 | #2,152 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #17,533 | 53 | #2,417 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,197 | 56 | #2,325 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,740 | 55 | #2,312 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,075 | 54 | #2,368 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 74 | #1,892 | |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,727 | 90 | #1,702 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,919 | 79 | #1,856 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,713 | 86 | #1,752 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,740 | 68 | #2,045 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,149 | 47 | #2,554 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 41 | #2,676 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 37 | #2,805 | |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,738 | 48 | #2,243 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,724 | 71 | #1,665 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,321 | 54 | #1,988 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,441 | 34 | #2,693 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 18 | #4,055 | |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,481 | 26 | #3,042 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 21 | #3,388 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,360 | 14 | #4,482 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 15 | #4,130 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 11 | #5,230 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 10 | #5,514 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 13 | #4,417 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,767 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #6,250 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jahari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,095 Americans recorded as Jahari, 10% are girls and 90% boys. In 2025 it went to 100 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jahari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jahari, and how old are they?
2,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,095 Americans ever recorded as Jahari. The median Jahari alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,228 people named Jahari (189 women and girls, 1,039 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,534 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 70 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 919 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,080 |
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 Jahari born?
The states with the most babies named Jahari are Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 12 | #1,089 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 9 | #946 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,078 | 1.2× |
| Louisiana | 7 | #622 | 0.7× |
| California | 5 | #2,604 | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,155 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,317 | 0.1× |
Where Jahari is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jahari is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1977 it was given 2.6 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 Jahari 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,358 babies since 1880, Jahari is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 100 of their 115 babies (87%), 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 Jahari
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 Jahari and names like it
- Compare Jahari and JahaireBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJahari peaked in 2023.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jahari since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Jahari.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jahari alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.