Meaning not yet researched.
Bakari: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 94 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,657 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,657 in 1978; #1,729 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bakari in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,729 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #1,657.
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Bakari: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 94 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,657 in 1978 · most boys in one year: 94 (2025).
In 2025, 94 US boys were named Bakari, making it the 1,729th most common boys’ name of the year, up 153 places from #1,882 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 85 boys named Bakari in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,657, reached in 1978. The most boys given the name in a single year was 94, in 2025. For comparison, it was #4,089 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bakari in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 8 babies. In all, 1,687 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 389 babies named Bakari.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 557 US boys were named Bakari; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 94. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,171 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bakari ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #949 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Bakary, Bacari and Bacarri are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bakary (142), Bacari (54), Bacarri (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Bakari in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 8 | #949 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,043 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,227 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,266 | — |
| Texas | 10 | #1,662 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 94 | #1,729 |
| 2024 | — | — | 85 | #1,882 |
| 2023 | — | — | 57 | #2,391 |
| 2022 | — | — | 55 | #2,495 |
| 2021 | — | — | 52 | #2,528 |
| 2020 | — | — | 46 | #2,693 |
| 2019 | — | — | 41 | #2,945 |
| 2018 | — | — | 63 | #2,189 |
| 2017 | — | — | 39 | #3,013 |
| 2016 | — | — | 25 | #4,109 |
| 2015 | — | — | 25 | #4,089 |
| 2014 | — | — | 22 | #4,408 |
| 2013 | — | — | 18 | #4,998 |
| 2012 | — | — | 27 | #3,815 |
| 2011 | — | — | 13 | #6,291 |
| 2010 | — | — | 30 | #3,540 |
| 2009 | — | — | 28 | #3,732 |
| 2008 | — | — | 35 | #3,228 |
| 2007 | — | — | 27 | #3,799 |
| 2006 | — | — | 22 | #4,237 |
| 2005 | — | — | 28 | #3,459 |
| 2004 | — | — | 31 | #3,165 |
| 2003 | — | — | 25 | #3,542 |
| 2002 | — | — | 35 | #2,692 |
| 2001 | — | — | 33 | #2,809 |
| 2000 | — | — | 25 | #3,308 |
| 1999 | — | — | 28 | #2,947 |
| 1998 | — | — | 47 | #2,015 |
| 1997 | — | — | 34 | #2,401 |
| 1996 | — | — | 38 | #2,188 |
| 1995 | — | — | 40 | #2,058 |
| 1994 | — | — | 28 | #2,623 |
| 1993 | — | — | 31 | #2,406 |
| 1992 | — | — | 24 | #2,843 |
| 1991 | — | — | 38 | #1,985 |
| 1990 | — | — | 30 | #2,318 |
| 1989 | — | — | 26 | #2,480 |
| 1988 | — | — | 21 | #2,693 |
| 1987 | — | — | 22 | #2,477 |
| 1986 | — | — | 18 | #2,790 |
| 1985 | — | — | 18 | #2,723 |
| 1984 | — | — | 18 | #2,620 |
| 1983 | — | — | 19 | #2,500 |
| 1982 | — | — | 22 | #2,277 |
| 1981 | — | — | 24 | #2,141 |
| 1980 | — | — | 22 | #2,287 |
| 1979 | — | — | 18 | #2,586 |
| 1978 | — | — | 33 | #1,657 |
| 1977 | — | — | 28 | #1,826 |
| 1976 | — | — | 28 | #1,784 |
| 1975 | — | — | 23 | #2,008 |
| 1974 | — | — | 20 | #2,133 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,732 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).