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Jakai

#569 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Jakai has been given to 4,265 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #569 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 519 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.

Babies named Jakai, 2025

1 in 6,390

Jakai over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2025, Jakai went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19942025

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.

Jakai: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jakai means

Jakai is a given name.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,059 boys were recorded with the name Jakai between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 519 in 2025; its best national rank was #569 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,085 in 2020 to #569 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,348 in 2015 to #569 in 2025.

In the United States, 206 girls were recorded with the name Jakai between 1997 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2005; its best national rank was #7,977 in 1997.

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 Jakai?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 6,390
519 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,290
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#569
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,429 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jakai 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 1002%
School of 5008%

Put another way: gather 4,429 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jakai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jakais were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jakai was born before 2020 — so the typical Jakai is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,059
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 50.6% of all recorded uses (2,052).

Is Jakai 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
+77
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+516
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+779
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.99×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (519)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#569
2025

Spellings of Jakai

Jakai is not the most common spelling — Jake is, with 32.3% against Jakai's 1.0%.

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 Jakai is used

Across 2016–2025, Jakai was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 2,500 boys, against 1 in 6,369 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

240 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 2,500
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 3,030
  3. 3Florida1 in 3,333
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 3,704
  5. 5Nevada1 in 3,846
  6. 6Alabama1 in 4,167
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 4,167
  8. 8Wisconsin1 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.

Geographically, Jakai is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 67% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Jakai around the world

Where Jakai 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
    2023–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jakai by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#569
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 516
Best rank ever
#569
2025
Peak year
2025
519 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,059
Count in 2025
519

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,977
1997
Peak year
2005
14 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
206
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jakai

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

JakubJakobeJakariJakobiZakaiJakhiJakobyJakeemJakobMakaiJaksonJakyeJakebJakelJakoriNakaiJakhariMikaiJakieJakhaiMekaiLakaiSakaiJakobie

Names with a curve like Jakai

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

AzaelAzrielSevenOceanDamirElielEmirTeoJahmirZamirRemiJasiel

Sibling names for Jakai

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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