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Baki

#9,819 in 2025Boys' name

Eternal

Baki has been given to 20 babies in the U.S. since 2022. In 2025 it ranked #9,819 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Baki, 2025

1 in 474,000

Baki over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Baki: meaning, origin, and history

Eternal

Arabic

What Baki means

Baki means “eternal”, associated with bāqin.

Origin, language, and formation

Baki is used in Albanian, Cebuano and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Frank, Franklin and بَاقٍ.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 20 boys were recorded with the name Baki between 2022 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2024; its best national rank was #9,819 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Baki?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,819
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Baki sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Baki. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bakis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Baki was born before 2024 — so the typical Baki is around 1 today.

Median birth year
2024
About 1 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
20
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2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (20).

Is Baki rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+202
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2024 (7)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,819
2025

Spellings of Baki

Baki is not the most common spelling — Blake is, with 31.5% against Baki's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Baki around the world

Where Baki ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1983–2025
    #4,639
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Baki by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,819
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#9,819
2025
Peak year
2024
7 that year
First recorded
2022
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
20
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Baki

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Baki

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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