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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 279,728 of them was named Jakai, which outranked 23.4% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,448Zyleah7
- #12,448Zyleigh7
- #12,448Zyrie7
- #13,799Jakai6
- #13,799Aabha6
- #13,799Aabriella6
- #13,799Aadrika6
- #15,539Aaditri5
- #15,539Aadiya5
- #15,539Aaila5
Tied with 1,739 names at #13,799; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 10,940 of them was named Jakai, which outranked 91.7% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,171Denzel165
- #1,171Joan165
- #1,171Palmer165
- #1,177Jakai164
- #1,177Amare164
- #1,177Channing164
- #1,177Kentrell164
- #1,182Deon163
- #1,182Jayvion163
- #1,182Quintin163
Tied with 4 names at #1,177; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.