Jaki
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- JAK-ee
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #6,442 for boys
Jaki is a boys' name of Hebrew origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,442nd for boys in the US (13 babies).
Where does Jaki come from?
Hebrew: probably a pet form of Jacob or Jack
Is Jaki a girl's or a boy's name?
Jaki is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jaki in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,442nd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 13 about 1 in 130,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 13 boys in the US were named Jaki, making it the 6,442nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 20 boys. It first appears in the records in 1993.
2025 had more boys named Jaki than any year since 2010.
Half of all the boys named Jaki in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 88 boys in the US were given Jaki or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,597, up from #6,442 for this spelling alone.
Jaki in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,442 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,760 |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,916 |
| 2022 | 8 | #8,983 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 6 | #10,754 |
| 2017 | 6 | #10,770 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,600 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,739 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,775 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,129 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,553 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,801 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,737 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,798 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,388 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,090 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,516 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,089 |
| 2004 | 6 | #9,941 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,551 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,081 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,236 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,104 |
| 1999 | 5 | #9,905 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 9 | #5,975 |
| 1995 | 7 | #6,985 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,631 |
Names like Jaki
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Loki, Yuri, Tru, Yitzchok, Rumi, Jakari, Yusuf, Jakai, Kairo, Mikko, Akari, Yakov
Other spellings of Jaki
Names related to Jaki
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias, Mateo
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Jaki: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jaki, updated 20 October 2026.