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“Modern coinage — an elaboration of Jak using -ari” — Modern coinage origin
Boy's name · #613 in the US (2025) · Trending
Jakari is climbing: on the charts since 1979, it reached #613 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 460 boys given the name last year. Roughly 5,300 have carried it all-time. In Mississippi and Alabama it runs 3–5× its national rate. Together with its spelling variants Jacari (#1665) and Jakhari (#1878), Jakari would rank around #472 with about 650 births last year — the newborns split about 72/15/13 across Jakari, Jacari, and Jakhari.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 25 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Similar names: Jacari · Kylen · Jakai · Zakari · Jahmir · Jahmari
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