Jakai
Jakai was given to 519 boys in 2025, #569 among boys’ names; 4,265 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,230 Americans named Jakai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jakai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jakai?
#569 among boys’ names, 2025
Jakai rose from #1,348 in 2015 to #569 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.07 to 0.30 per 1,000.
519 babies in 2025, the peak
Jakai peaked in 2025, when 519 boys were given it, #569 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 430 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 519 | #569 | 0.30 |
| 2024 | 430 | #646 | 0.25 |
| 2023 | 363 | #730 | 0.21 |
| 2022 | 312 | #805 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 245 | #925 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 183 | #1,085 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 164 | #1,179 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 155 | #1,211 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 124 | #1,410 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 119 | #1,453 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 130 | #1,348 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 107 | #1,509 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 90 | #1,671 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 94 | #1,641 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 120 | #1,389 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 96 | #1,630 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 122 | #1,398 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 84 | #1,779 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 98 | #1,600 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 83 | #1,705 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 97 | #1,491 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 64 | #1,916 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 67 | #1,788 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 60 | #1,873 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 29 | #3,091 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,460 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,749 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,083 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,202 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,452 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,221 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,275 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jakai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,265 Americans recorded as Jakai, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 519 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 Jakai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jakai, and how old are they?
4,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,265 Americans ever recorded as Jakai. The median Jakai alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,706 people named Jakai (158 women and girls, 1,548 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,214 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 19 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,210 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,000 |
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 Jakai born?
The states with the most babies named Jakai are Florida, Texas and Georgia, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 54 | #361 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 49 | #625 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 41 | #303 | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 27 | #406 | 0.6× |
| South Carolina | 26 | #217 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 23 | #465 | 1.3× |
| Missouri | 23 | #298 | 0.8× |
| New York | 21 | #704 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #498 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 20 | #524 | 0.7× |
Where Jakai is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jakai is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1994 it was given 1.8 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 Jakai 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 137,844 babies since 1880, Jakai is the second most given (3.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 519 of their 1,459 babies (36%), again the second 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 Jakai
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 Jakai and names like it
- Compare Jakai and JakeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJakai peaked in 2025.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jakai since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Jakai.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jakai alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.