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Jakhari vs Jakobe

American parents have registered 4,883 Jakobes since 1880, against 1,134 Jakharis. Jakobe is still ahead, with 122 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jakhari against Jakobe, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jakhari Jakobe

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

Of the 32 years in which either name was published, Jakobe for 29 years and Jakhari for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jakhari Jakobe
Total US births 1,1344,883
Most in one year 98273
Babies in 2025 84122
Estimated living today 1,1004,800
Median age today 713
Peak year 20232020
Best rank 1,711th boys833rd boys
Rank in 2025 1,867th1,459th
First recorded 19941996
Girls / boys 20 / 1,1140 / 4,883

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 Jakobes alive today are over 13; half the Jakharis are over 7. That is 6 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: Jakhari and Jakobe.