Jabari

Where Jabari comes from

Borrowed from Swahili Jabari.
— Wiktionary's entry for Jabari
  • Swahili
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1971
    First appearance
    #4,907 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1995
    Jabari Parker born
    American basketball player
  3. 2003
    Jabari Smith Jr. born
    American basketball player
  4. 2006
    Peak, #608
    393 babies named Jabari — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2013
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,043.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Swahili of modern African American usage.
Namesakes
  • Jabari Parker · American basketball player, born 1995
  • Jabari Smith Jr. · American basketball player, born 2003
  • Jabari Walker · American basketball player, born 2002
  • Jabari Brown · American basketball player, born 1992
  • Jabari Bird · American basketball player, born 1994

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.