In 2025, 13 US girls were named Jakyra, making it the 8,065th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,375 places from #5,690 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 22 girls named Jakyra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,286, reached in 2005. That year also had the most girls given the name: 79. For comparison, it was #5,362 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jakyra in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 5 babies. In all, 1,111 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 574 babies named Jakyra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 167 US girls were named Jakyra; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 26. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jakira (1,344 babies since 1880).