boys:
9.4k births since 1971
#1218 (73rd percentile)
overall:
9.4k births since 1971
#2780 (64th percentile)
The name Jabari is the #2,780 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,370 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 64.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,218 (73.4% percentile) for all time with 9,370 births since 1971.
Jabari first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (first recorded for boys in 1971).
For boys, Jabari reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 39.9% percentile (ranked #526) with 179 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 179 births per million (ranked 39.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jabari ranks #669 for boys (26.6% percentile) with 136 births per million, which is 75.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jabari".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Jabari is pronounced as juh-BAH-ree, which has 3 syllables.
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