Jakari
Jakari was given to 462 boys in 2025, #613 among boys’ names; 5,612 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,550 Americans named Jakari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jakari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jakari?
#613 among boys’ names, 2025
Jakari rose from #1,299 in 2015 to #613 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.07 to 0.27 per 1,000.
467 babies in 2025, the peak
Jakari peaked in 2025, when 467 babies were given it (462 boys, #613 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 429 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 462 | #613 | 0.27 |
| 2024 | 429 | #647 | 0.25 |
| 2023 | 399 | #680 | 0.23 |
| 2022 | 372 | #709 | 0.21 |
| 2021 | 298 | #814 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 256 | #883 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 242 | #911 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 181 | #1,091 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 176 | #1,106 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 156 | #1,212 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 137 | #1,299 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 115 | #1,439 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 121 | #1,393 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 127 | #1,342 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 151 | #1,176 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 146 | #1,216 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 130 | #1,336 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 148 | #1,193 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 129 | #1,324 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 128 | #1,296 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 137 | #1,164 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 123 | #1,231 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 91 | #1,441 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 90 | #1,433 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 87 | #1,430 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 78 | #1,542 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 64 | #1,660 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 59 | #1,726 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,001 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 37 | #2,228 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 26 | #2,792 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,801 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 38 | #2,103 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,018 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,861 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,847 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,358 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,749 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,605 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,987 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,774 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,158 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,201 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jakari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,612 Americans recorded as Jakari, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls and 462 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jakari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jakari, and how old are they?
5,550 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,612 Americans ever recorded as Jakari. The median Jakari alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 2,531 people named Jakari (226 women and girls, 2,305 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,357 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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 | 8 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 233 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,840 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,470 |
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 Jakari born?
The states with the most babies named Jakari are Georgia, North Carolina and Texas, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 42 | #296 | 2.7× |
| North Carolina | 42 | #298 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 42 | #687 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 31 | #562 | 1.8× |
| South Carolina | 23 | #247 | 2.8× |
| New York | 23 | #648 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 22 | #481 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 17 | #499 | 1.4× |
| Alabama | 17 | #322 | 2.5× |
| Indiana | 16 | #439 | 0.6× |
Where Jakari is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jakari is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1979 it was given 2.8 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 Jakari 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 12,825 babies since 1880, Jakari is the most given (44% of them). In 2025 it was given to 467 of their 818 babies (57%), 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 Jakari
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 Jakari and names like it
- Compare Jakari and JacariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJakari peaked in 2025.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jakari since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Jakari.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jakari alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.