Jahkai
Jahkai was given to 167 boys in 2025, #1,215 among boys’ names; 848 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jahkai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jahkai?
#1,215 among boys’ names, 2025
Jahkai rose from #4,341 in 2015 to #1,215 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 12.0 to 97.8 per million.
167 babies in 2025, the peak
Jahkai peaked in 2025, when 167 boys were given it, #1,215 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 126 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 167 | #1,215 | 97.8 |
| 2024 | 126 | #1,442 | 73.1 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,331 | 35.1 |
| 2022 | 45 | #2,842 | 25.8 |
| 2021 | 53 | #2,510 | 30.3 |
| 2020 | 40 | #2,948 | 23.2 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,390 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 28 | #3,820 | 15.4 |
| 2017 | 19 | #5,000 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,648 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #4,341 | 12.0 |
| 2014 | 26 | #3,945 | 13.5 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,048 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,184 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,934 | 13.7 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,914 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,662 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,594 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,526 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,757 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,819 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,592 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,142 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,859 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,663 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,078 | 2.5 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,589 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jahkai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jahkai has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 27 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jahkai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jahkai, and how old are they?
An estimated 841 Americans named Jahkai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 273 people named Jahkai (13 women and girls, 260 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 359 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Jahkai?
Jahkai is a less common spelling of Jakai: SSA has recorded 848 Jahkai and 4,265 Jakai since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,812 babies since 1880, Jahkai is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 167 of their 806 babies (21%), the second 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 Jahkai
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 Jahkai and names like it
- Compare Jahkai and JakaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJahkai peaked in 2025.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jahkai since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Jahkai.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jahkai alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.