Jobani — boys' name
222 babies named Jobani in U.S. Social Security records since 1990, with the highest year being 2005. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
46% of everyone ever named Jobani was born in this single decade.
22 babies were named Jobani in 2005 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jobani
The Social Security Administration has registered 222 babies named Jobani between 1990 and 2019, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jobani currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 22 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jobani performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 103 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Jobani shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 21 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jobani in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jobani 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 222 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.
Jobani at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jobani popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1990
- Peak year (2005)
- 22
- Annual births at peak — across 30 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
222 total births across 30 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2005 with 22 births in a single year.
Jobani by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 103 births that decade — 46% of Jobani's all-time total
Jobani decade highlights
- Peak decade 103 births
- Runner-up 91 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Jobani's strongest decade
103 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 46% of all-time use.
Jobani by state
Where Jobani concentrates geographically — total births since 1990
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 21 | 9.5% |
21 of 222 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 9.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 9.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1990–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.