Jakim
Jakim was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 186 Americans have been recorded with it between 1981 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jakim by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jakim?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,442, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 2000, the peak
Jakim peaked in 2000, when 12 boys were given it, #5,707 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #11,442 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,180 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,335 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,102 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,254 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,907 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,346 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,253 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,334 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,823 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | #12,100 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,430 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,265 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,148 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,707 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,177 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,923 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,613 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,742 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,624 | 4.2 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,312 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,824 | 3.5 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,502 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,884 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,691 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jakim a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jakim has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jakim: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jakim, and how old are they?
An estimated 182 Americans named Jakim and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 15 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 191 people named Jakim (19 women and girls, 172 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 162 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,430 babies since 1880, Jakim is the second most given (13% of them).
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 Jakim
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 Jakim and names like it
- Compare Jakim and JakeemBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJakim peaked in 2000.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jakim since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Jakim.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jakim alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.