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Jakari vs Jakobi

American parents have registered 5,612 Jakaris since 1880, against 2,695 Jakobis. Jakari is still ahead, with 467 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jakari against Jakobi, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jakari Jakobi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jakari has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1979 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2009, when Jakari had 137 and Jakobi had 106.

Side by side

  Jakari Jakobi
Total US births 5,6122,695
Most in one year 467179
Babies in 2025 467101
Estimated living today 5,6002,700
Median age today 810
Peak year 20252022
Best rank 612th boys1,180th boys
Rank in 2025 612th1,654th
First recorded 19791993
Girls / boys 300 / 5,31245 / 2,650

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jakobis alive today are over 10; half the Jakaris are over 8. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jakari Jakobi
England and Wales 341

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jakari and Jakobi.