Fun Facts About the Name Jakori
- 608 babies named Jakori: U.S. records list 608 babies given the name Jakori from 1880 through 2025. Even 10 girls received the name Jakori - about 1 girl for every 60 boys.
What Does the Name Jakori Mean?
Jakori is a given name used in the United States with no documented etymology, so no settled meaning can be assigned to it. It opens with the element Jak-, familiar from Jacob, but the closing -ori matches no established suffix in Hebrew or in any of the languages that shaped Jacob. That is why the name cannot be translated from an older source word the way Jacob (from Hebrew Ya'aqov) can.
Similar-sounding names such as Jakari and Jabari are sometimes treated as related, but their etymologies do not transfer to Jakori. The resemblance there is a matter of sound, not of a documented shared root.
Jakori Name History & Origins
Jakori follows a naming pattern that became common in the United States in the late twentieth century, in which a familiar opening like Ja- (as in Jacob, James, and Jason) is joined to a two-syllable ending to make a three-syllable name. Jakari, Jaquari, and Jakobi are built the same way, and Jakori is often listed as a spelling variant of Jakari rather than as a form borrowed from an older language.
There is no documented chain of borrowed or altered forms behind Jakori, so its development is a recent American use of familiar sounds rather than the migration of one name across languages.
How Popular is the Name Jakori?
Jakori has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2011. Its best rank was #2,646 in 2011.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | #16,537 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2012 | #17,940 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #5,703 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2024 | #5,994 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2023 | #6,046 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2022 | #4,490 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2021 | #4,057 | 26 | 0.0015% |
| 2020 | #4,928 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2019 | #5,425 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2018 | #4,044 | 26 | 0.0014% |
| 2017 | #5,637 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2016 | #4,529 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 2015 | #5,385 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2014 | #7,244 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2013 | #5,265 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2012 | #3,413 | 32 | 0.0017% |
| 2011 | #2,646 | 46 | 0.0024% |
| 2010 | #3,488 | 31 | 0.0016% |
| 2009 | #4,345 | 23 | 0.0012% |
| 2008 | #3,250 | 35 | 0.0017% |
| 2007 | #5,293 | 17 | 0.0008% |
| 2006 | #3,835 | 26 | 0.0013% |
| 2005 | #3,414 | 29 | 0.0015% |
| 2004 | #4,328 | 20 | 0.0010% |
| 2003 | #6,022 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2002 | #6,272 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2001 | #5,817 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2000 | #6,521 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1999 | #4,227 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 1998 | #7,125 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1997 | #7,623 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1996 | #6,751 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1995 | #6,634 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1993 | #8,055 | 6 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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