Jak — #4147 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jak

The Social Security Administration has registered 520 babies named Jak between 1994 and 2024, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jak currently holds the #4147 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 34 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jak performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 242 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Jak shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jak in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jak 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 520 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.