Jakai
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #12,161 · #569 for boys in 2025, 519 births
Given to boys 95.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 519 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,059since 1994
Jakai over time
Rank among boys' names. Jakai has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #569 | 519 | |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #646 | 430 |
| 2023 | — | #730 | 363 | |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #804 | 312 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #924 | 245 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #1,084 | 183 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #1,177 | 164 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #1,207 | 155 |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 | #1,408 | 124 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #1,450 | 119 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 | #1,346 | 130 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #1,506 | 107 |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #1,670 | 90 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #1,637 | 94 |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 | #1,385 | 120 |
| 2010 | #8,271 | 14 | #1,626 | 96 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #1,390 | 122 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #1,775 | 84 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #1,593 | 98 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | #1,698 | 83 |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 | #1,485 | 97 |
| 2004 | — | #1,911 | 64 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #1,781 | 67 |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 | #1,869 | 60 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #3,061 | 29 |
| 2000 | — | #3,423 | 24 | |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #3,704 | 20 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #4,019 | 17 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #3,160 | 23 |
| 1996 | — | #7,136 | 7 | |
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
| 1994 | — | #6,968 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jakai! It came in at #6,968, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1994–1996, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Jakai is popular in 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#636 · 1 in 3,973
- Florida#699 · 1 in 4,917
- Louisiana#707 · 1 in 4,246
- Pennsylvania#749 · 1 in 5,983
- Minnesota#783 · 1 in 5,677
Best ever in a state: #165 in Delaware, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | #636 | 7 | 1 in 3,973 |
| Florida | #699 | 20 | 1 in 4,917 |
| Louisiana | #707 | 6 | 1 in 4,246 |
| Pennsylvania | #749 | 10 | 1 in 5,983 |
| Minnesota | #783 | 5 | 1 in 5,677 |
| Virginia | #789 | 7 | 1 in 6,060 |
| North Carolina | #986 | 6 | 1 in 8,668 |
| Georgia | #1,213 | 5 | 1 in 10,989 |
| California | #1,258 | 15 | 1 in 15,087 |
| Illinois | #1,319 | 5 | 1 in 13,278 |
| New York | #1,348 | 8 | 1 in 12,856 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jakai
- 77 spots since 2024 (#646 → #569)
- 515 spots since 2020 (#1,084 → #569)
- 777 spots since 2015 (#1,346 → #569)
- Biggest jump: 160 spots in 2021 (#1,084 → #924)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2025 at #569 (519 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2021–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,291 boys born in 2025 were named Jakai (0.03%)
- 50.6% of all boys named Jakai (2,052) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 80 | #3,160 (1997) | #5,463 |
| 2000s | 728 | #1,390 (2009) | #1,999 |
| 2010s | 1,199 | #1,177 (2019) | #1,441 |
| 2020s | 2,052 | #569 (2025) | #793 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jakai in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 178,510 of them was named Jakai, which outranked 47.0% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,481Zilah11
- #9,481Zoria11
- #9,481Zyiah11
- #10,148Jakai10
- #10,148Aarianna10
- #10,148Aaryah10
- #10,148Aaylah10
- #10,866Aadrika9
- #10,866Aalaya9
- #10,866Aalaysia9
Tied with 717 names at #10,148; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 14,744 of them was named Jakai, which outranked 90.4% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,340Francesco131
- #1,340Kael131
- #1,340Ramsey131
- #1,346Jakai130
- #1,346Adiel130
- #1,346Cordell130
- #1,346Jaxsen130
- #1,353Dereck129
- #1,353Devonte129
- #1,353Earl129
Tied with 6 names at #1,346; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.