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Jakari vs Jakhi

American parents have registered 5,612 Jakaris since 1880, against 1,153 Jakhis. Jakari is still ahead, with 467 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jakari Jakhi

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 2015, when Jakari had 147 and Jakhi had 80.

Side by side

  Jakari Jakhi
Total US births 5,6121,153
Most in one year 46780
Babies in 2025 46741
Estimated living today 5,6001,100
Median age today 811
Peak year 20252015
Best rank 612th boys1,846th boys
Rank in 2025 612th2,991st
First recorded 19792000
Girls / boys 300 / 5,3120 / 1,153

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 Jakhis alive today are over 11; half the Jakaris are over 8. That is 3 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.

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