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Jabbar

#11,195 in 2025Boys' name

Powerful

Jabbar has been given to 752 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #11,195 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1972, with 76 recorded.

Babies named Jabbar, 2025

1 in 553,000

Jabbar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jabbar: meaning, origin, and history

Powerful

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jabbar means

Jabbar means “powerful”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jabbar is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /d͡ʒab.ˈbaːr/ for Jabbar.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 752 boys were recorded with the name Jabbar between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 76 in 1972; its best national rank was #918 in 1972.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,043 in 2020 to #11,195 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,965 in 2015 to #11,195 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.

How common is Jabbar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,195
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jabbar 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jabbar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jabbars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jabbar was born before 1986 — so the typical Jabbar is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
34.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
752
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 34.8% of all recorded uses (262).

Is Jabbar 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,152
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,230
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.9%
Peak was 1972 (76)
Years since peak
53
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#918
1972

Spellings of Jabbar

Jabbar is not the most common spelling — Jamar is, with 49.0% against Jabbar's 2.3%.

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 Jabbar is used

Across 1910–2025, Jabbar was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 554,067 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Louisiana1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —

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. Jabbar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jabbar around the world

Where Jabbar 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
    1996–2021
    #3,990
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Jabbar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,195
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,152
Best rank ever
#918
1972
Peak year
1972
76 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
752
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Jabbar

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

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Sibling names for Jabbar

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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