Meaning not yet researched.
Jakai: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 519 in 2025. Its best rank was #569 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Jakai in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#569 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Jakai: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 519 boys in 2025. Peak: #569 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 519 (2025).
In 2025, 519 US boys were named Jakai, making it the 569th most common boys’ name of the year, up 77 places from #646 in 2024. That is 89 more than the 430 boys named Jakai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #569, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 519. For comparison, it was #1,348 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jakai in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 7 babies. In all, 4,265 US babies have been given the name, 4.8% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,079 babies named Jakai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,614 US boys were named Jakai; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 519. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,291 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jakai ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #217 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Jahkai, Jakaya and Jacai 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: Jahkai (848), Jakaya (220), Jacai (167), Jakaiya (162), Jakaia (49), Jakaii (43), Jaqai (21), Jakayia (6).
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 Jakai 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 24 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 26 | #217 | — |
| Louisiana | 19 | #269 | #743 |
| Missouri | 23 | #298 | — |
| Georgia | 41 | #303 | #1,288 |
| Wisconsin | 17 | #328 | — |
| Florida | 54 | #361 | #705 |
| Mississippi | 8 | #385 | — |
| Indiana | 19 | #385 | — |
| Illinois | 27 | #406 | #1,412 |
| Nevada | 7 | #412 | — |
| Alabama | 11 | #465 | — |
| North Carolina | 23 | #465 | #1,049 |
| Virginia | 16 | #479 | #837 |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #498 | #768 |
| Ohio | 20 | #524 | — |
| Michigan | 14 | #584 | — |
| Arkansas | 5 | #592 | — |
| Tennessee | 12 | #614 | — |
| Texas | 49 | #625 | — |
| Kansas | 5 | #634 | — |
| Kentucky | 6 | #656 | — |
| New Jersey | 10 | #673 | — |
| New York | 21 | #704 | #1,407 |
| Arizona | 7 | #809 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #861 | #845 |
| Colorado | 5 | #898 | — |
| California | 13 | #1,390 | #1,285 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 519 | #569 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,696 | 430 | #646 |
| 2023 | — | — | 363 | #730 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,628 | 312 | #805 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,738 | 245 | #925 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,108 | 183 | #1,085 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,523 | 164 | #1,179 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,658 | 155 | #1,211 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,259 | 124 | #1,410 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,477 | 119 | #1,453 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,431 | 130 | #1,348 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,609 | 107 | #1,509 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,752 | 90 | #1,672 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,101 | 94 | #1,642 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,371 | 120 | #1,389 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,438 | 96 | #1,630 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,934 | 122 | #1,398 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,442 | 84 | #1,779 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,018 | 98 | #1,600 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,536 | 83 | #1,705 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,066 | 97 | #1,492 |
| 2004 | — | — | 64 | #1,920 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,757 | 67 | #1,791 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,092 | 60 | #1,877 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,589 | 29 | #3,096 |
| 2000 | — | — | 24 | #3,466 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,346 | 20 | #3,754 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,074 | 17 | #4,087 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,982 | 23 | #3,207 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,459 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,228 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,281 |
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).