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Jabari

#1,189 in 2025Boys' name

Almighty, powerful

Jabari has been given to 9,768 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #1,189 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 393 recorded.

Babies named Jabari, 2025

1 in 19,300

Jabari over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jabari: meaning, origin, and history

Almighty, powerful

Swahili

What Jabari means

Jabari means “almighty, powerful”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Swahili Jabari, from jabari, borrowed from Arabic جَبَّار (jabbār), from Proto-West Semitic *gabbār-.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Jabari (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Jabari is used in English and Swahili. Its origins include Swahili.

Jabari comes through Swahili Jabari and Indonesian given name.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,768 boys were recorded with the name Jabari between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 393 in 2006; its best national rank was #609 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #942 in 2020 to #1,189 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #948 in 2015 to #1,189 in 2025.

How common is Jabari?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 19,300
172 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 9,930
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,189
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
13,361 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jabari 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 13,361 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jabari. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jabaris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jabari was born before 2005 — so the typical Jabari is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,768
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 30.8% of all recorded uses (3,009).

Is Jabari 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
−168
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−247
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−241
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.78×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.8%
Peak was 2006 (393)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#609
2006

Spellings of Jabari

Jabari is not the most common spelling — Amari is, with 22.3% against Jabari's 6.8%.

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.

Where Jabari is used

Across 2016–2025, Jabari was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 2,564 boys, against 1 in 6,799 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

139 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 2,564
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 2,778
  3. 3Georgia1 in 2,941
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 3,125
  5. 5Alabama1 in 3,226
  6. 6South Carolina1 in 3,333
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 4,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 4,167

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Jabari around the world

Where Jabari 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.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    2020–2025
    #2,845
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Jabari

People whose public names include Jabari, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jabari by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,189
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 247
Best rank ever
#609
2006
Peak year
2006
393 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,768
Count in 2025
172

Names similar to Jabari

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

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Names with a curve like Jabari

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jabari, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jabari

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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