girls:
199 births since 1997
#5517 (3rd percentile)
boys:
3.1k births since 1994
#2243 (51st percentile)
overall:
3.3k births since 1994
#4751 (39th percentile)
The name Jakai is the #4,751 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,305 recorded births since 1994. This represents the 38.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 38.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,243 (51.1% percentile) for all time with 3,106 births since 1994. For girls, it ranks #5,517 (3.4% percentile) for all time with 199 births since 1997.
Jakai first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1994 (1994 for boys and 1997 for girls).
The name Jakai has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jakai reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 36.4% percentile (ranked #580) with 198 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 198 births per million (ranked 36.4% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Jakai is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #580 (36.4% percentile) with 198 births per million.
For girls, Jakai reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #930) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jakai".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Jakai. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.9% confident that Jakai is pronounced as juh-KAI, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jah-KAI, at 20.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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