Meaning not yet researched.
Jabari: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 172 in 2025. Its best rank was #609 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #609 in 2006; #1,189 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jabari in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,189 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #609.
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Jabari: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 172 boys in 2025. Peak: #609 in 2006 · most boys in one year: 393 (2006).
In 2025, 172 US boys were named Jabari, making it the 1,189th most common boys’ name of the year, down 168 places from #1,021 in 2024. That is 47 fewer than the 219 boys named Jabari in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #609, reached in 2006. That year also had the most boys given the name: 393. For comparison, it was #948 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jabari in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 9,768 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,009 babies named Jabari.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,279 US boys were named Jabari; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 261. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,931 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jabari ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #398 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Jabarri, Jabarie and Jahbari 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: Jabarri (336), Jabarie (236), Jahbari (183), Jabori (175), Jabaree (124), Jabary (11), Jaborie (11), Jabahri (9), Jabarrie (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 Jabari 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 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 13 | #398 | #744 |
| Virginia | 10 | #700 | #1,052 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #800 | #574 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #828 | #558 |
| Florida | 17 | #861 | #636 |
| Georgia | 10 | #875 | #483 |
| Illinois | 9 | #897 | #656 |
| New York | 13 | #966 | #839 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,089 | #969 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,166 | — |
| Texas | 10 | #1,695 | #1,082 |
| California | 7 | #2,076 | #2,393 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 172 | #1,189 |
| 2024 | — | — | 219 | #1,021 |
| 2023 | — | — | 250 | #924 |
| 2022 | — | — | 201 | #1,085 |
| 2021 | — | — | 242 | #934 |
| 2020 | — | — | 234 | #942 |
| 2019 | — | — | 242 | #910 |
| 2018 | — | — | 261 | #849 |
| 2017 | — | — | 222 | #940 |
| 2016 | — | — | 236 | #912 |
| 2015 | — | — | 220 | #948 |
| 2014 | — | — | 168 | #1,134 |
| 2013 | — | — | 184 | #1,044 |
| 2012 | — | — | 226 | #917 |
| 2011 | — | — | 219 | #921 |
| 2010 | — | — | 243 | #866 |
| 2009 | — | — | 243 | #866 |
| 2008 | — | — | 289 | #770 |
| 2007 | — | — | 391 | #625 |
| 2006 | — | — | 393 | #609 |
| 2005 | — | — | 355 | #624 |
| 2004 | — | — | 346 | #618 |
| 2003 | — | — | 334 | #620 |
| 2002 | — | — | 254 | #705 |
| 2001 | — | — | 215 | #786 |
| 2000 | — | — | 189 | #847 |
| 1999 | — | — | 179 | #848 |
| 1998 | — | — | 156 | #916 |
| 1997 | — | — | 186 | #794 |
| 1996 | — | — | 174 | #826 |
| 1995 | — | — | 165 | #839 |
| 1994 | — | — | 188 | #769 |
| 1993 | — | — | 219 | #701 |
| 1992 | — | — | 197 | #736 |
| 1991 | — | — | 157 | #826 |
| 1990 | — | — | 129 | #907 |
| 1989 | — | — | 127 | #898 |
| 1988 | — | — | 94 | #1,006 |
| 1987 | — | — | 83 | #1,049 |
| 1986 | — | — | 76 | #1,068 |
| 1985 | — | — | 83 | #1,001 |
| 1984 | — | — | 77 | #1,015 |
| 1983 | — | — | 86 | #951 |
| 1982 | — | — | 81 | #1,009 |
| 1981 | — | — | 91 | #941 |
| 1980 | — | — | 91 | #941 |
| 1979 | — | — | 112 | #822 |
| 1978 | — | — | 101 | #857 |
| 1977 | — | — | 84 | #930 |
| 1976 | — | — | 82 | #926 |
| 1975 | — | — | 71 | #975 |
| 1974 | — | — | 79 | #916 |
| 1973 | — | — | 40 | #1,317 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,168 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,243 |
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).