Jaki
Jaki was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,605 among boys’ names; 361 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaki by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaki?
#6,605 among boys’ names, 2025
Jaki rose from #9,083 in 2015 to #6,605 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 7.6 per million.
25 babies in 2006, the peak
Jaki peaked in 2006, when 25 babies were given it (20 boys, #4,579 among boys’ names). The 13 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 13 | #6,605 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 10 | #7,987 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 8 | #9,267 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 8 | #9,336 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 5 | #12,917 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 8 | #9,055 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 6 | #11,354 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 6 | #11,328 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 10 | #7,824 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 8 | #9,083 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | under 5 | 8 | #9,119 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 5 | #12,906 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 10 | #7,775 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 6 | #11,417 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 15 | #5,850 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 12 | #6,975 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 13 | #6,557 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 11 | #7,296 | |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,287 | 20 | #4,579 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 10 | #7,342 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 6 | #10,507 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 13 | #5,679 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 11 | #6,264 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 6 | #9,768 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 6 | #9,577 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 5 | #10,582 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 9 | #6,186 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 7 | #7,301 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 6 | #8,047 | |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,067 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,156 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,867 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,529 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,526 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,688 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,267 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,169 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,704 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,757 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,145 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,960 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,098 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,029 | under 5 |
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 Jaki a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 361 Americans recorded as Jaki, 28% are girls and 72% boys. In 2025 it went to 13 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 Jaki: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaki, and how old are they?
An estimated 349 Americans named Jaki and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 12 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 521 people named Jaki (293 women and girls, 228 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 303 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Jaki?
Jaki is a less common spelling of Jacky: SSA has recorded 361 Jaki and 7,787 Jacky since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 237,141 babies since 1880, Jaki is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 4,524 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Jaki
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 Jaki and names like it
- Compare Jaki and JackyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaki peaked in 2006.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Jaki.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaki alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.