Jahkari
#1,949 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jahkari has been given to 479 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #1,949 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 79 recorded.
Babies named Jahkari, 2025
1 in 42,000
Jahkari 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jahkari?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 42,000
- 79 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 21,600
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,949
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 29,088 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jahkari 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 29,088 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jahkari. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jahkaris were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jahkari was born before 2020 — so the typical Jahkari is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 55.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 479
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 55.3% of all recorded uses (265).
Is Jahkari 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
- +228
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,007
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,428
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 4.65×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (79)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.2% average annual change
Spellings of Jahkari
Jahkari is not the most common spelling — Jamari is, with 25.6% against Jahkari's 0.81%.
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 Jahkari is used
Across 2016–2025, Jahkari was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 80,598 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 25,000
- 2Alabama1 in 50,000
- 3Florida1 in 50,000
- 4Georgia1 in 50,000
- 5North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 6South Carolina1 in 50,000
- 7Virginia1 in 100,000
- 8Texas1 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.
Jahkari by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jahkari
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jahkari
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.