How rare is the name Jabari?

6,849 people in the United States have the first name Jabari, about 1 in 44,099. It ranks #3,174 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

JABARI

#3,174

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,849
About
1 in 44,099
This common or more
81.8%
Who bears it

Of the 6,849 people named Jabari, 89.5% reported their origin as Black, 5.4% as two or more races and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino. 99.4% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jabari peaked in 2006, when 393 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19712025
Peak year
2006
Births that year
393
In 2025*
172 ▼56%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 9,768 babies have been given the name since 1971. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Jabari by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,526. The largest share of babies named Jabari, 43.2%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1970s#2,689581
1980s#2,337889
1990s#1,8561,750
2000s#1,5263,009
2010s#2,0482,221
2020s#2,0971,318
Generation X 1965–806.9%
Millennials 1981–9620.8%
Generation Z 1997–1243.2%
2013 and later29.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Jabari is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jabari has been most common in Georgia (3.9×), Florida (3.5×), and District of Columbia (3×), and least common in Indiana (0.19×).

7,878 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jabari, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Jabari ranks #75,616 of 156,621, with 275 people. See Jabari as a last name

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