Jakim
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jakim has been given to 186 babies in the U.S. since 1981. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2000, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Jakim, 2022
1 in 564,000
Jakim 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jakim?
Jakim had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 564,000
- 6 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 291,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,139 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jakim sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jakim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jakims were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jakim was born before 2002 — so the typical Jakim is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 37.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 71.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 186
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 37.6% of all recorded uses (70).
Is Jakim 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2000 (12)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.3% average annual change
Spellings of Jakim
Jakim is not the most common spelling — Jim is, with 21.8% against Jakim's 0.03%.
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 Jakim is used
Across 1910–2025, Jakim was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 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. Jakim has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jakim around the world
Where Jakim 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.
- South Australia1992–1992#538in 1992
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jakim by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jakim
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jakim
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.