Jahari
#1,666 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jahari has been given to 2,095 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #1,666 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 100 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% boys, 10% girls all-time.
Babies named Jahari, 2025
1 in 33,200
Jahari over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Jahari over time
In 2025, Jahari went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Jahari?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 33,200
- 100 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 17,100
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,666
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 22,980 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jahari sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 22,980 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jahari. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jaharis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jahari was born before 2013 — so the typical Jahari is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 35.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,876
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (662).
Is Jahari 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
- +371
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +105
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +751
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.89×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (100)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.1% average annual change
Spellings of Jahari
Jahari is not the most common spelling — Amari is, with 20.6% against Jahari's 1.2%.
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 Jahari is used
Across 2016–2025, Jahari was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 28,198 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
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.
Jahari around the world
Where Jahari 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 & Wales2003–2009#2,837in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Jahari by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Jahari
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jahari
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.