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Jak

#4,603 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly heel of the foot, through Jack

Jak has been given to 542 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #4,603 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Jak, 2025

1 in 151,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jak: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly heel of the foot, through Jack

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jak means

Jak belongs to the name family reached through Jak → Jack → Jacques → Ἰάκωβος. Its meaning is “heel of the foot”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jak is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jack, Jacques and Ἰάκωβος.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 542 boys were recorded with the name Jak between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 34 in 2014; its best national rank was #3,257 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,335 in 2020 to #4,603 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,466 in 2015 to #4,603 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 Jak?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 77,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,603
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jak 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jak. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jaks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jak was born before 2015 — so the typical Jak is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
542
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.6% of all recorded uses (242).

Is Jak 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
−479
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+732
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,137
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.69×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
64.7%
Peak was 2014 (34)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,257
2014

Where Jak is used

Across 1910–2025, Jak was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Jak has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jak around the world

Where Jak 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
    1996–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1990–2019
    #701
    in 2019
  • Northern Ireland
    2006–2006
    #341
    in 2006
  • France
    1920–2016
    #5,863
    in 2016
  • Canada
    2007–2014
    #2,672
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1982–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jak by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,603
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 732
Best rank ever
#3,257
2014
Peak year
2014
34 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
542
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Jak

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

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Sibling names for Jak

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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