girls:
10 births since 1997
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
350 births since 1996
#4236 (8th percentile)
overall:
360 births since 1996
#7379 (5th percentile)
The name Jachai is the #7,379 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 360 recorded births since 1996. This represents the 4.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,236 (7.6% percentile) for all time with 350 births since 1996. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1997.
Jachai first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1996 (1996 for boys and 1997 for girls). Birth data for Jachai is available in 25 out of the 28 years between 1996 and 2023 (25 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jachai has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jachai reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 6.1% percentile (ranked #744) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 27 births per million (ranked 6.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Jachai ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 20.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jachai reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #858) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1997.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jachai".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Jachai. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.6% confident that Jachai is pronounced as juh-KAI, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JAH-kai, at 16.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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