Jacori
Masculine
Jacori is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 1,054 boys against 12 girls since 1880.
Two layers down inside Jacori there is an Irish surname. Corey descends from O Comhraidhe, an Offaly family name; American naming took it as a given name in the 1960s, and twenty years later a prefix was bolted onto the front of it. Almost nothing of the Irish reaches this far.
How old is the name Jacori?
Jacori first appears in US birth records in 1984 — 41 years ago. The typical Jacori alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 1,000 people named Jacori are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jacori most popular?
Jacori peaked in 2010, reaching #2187 nationally. Today it ranks #6446, 4,259 places below that high. See the whole 2010 chart.
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Where it comes from
From O Comhraidhe to Jacori
Our story of Jacori
A name can be built in stages, each one a generation apart, and Jacori shows all three. An Irish surname becomes an English one by anglicization, that surname becomes an American given name during the 1960s and 1970s, and that given name becomes raw material for the prefix system in the 1980s and after. The interesting part is the timing of the last step: the prefix families are usually described as a phenomenon of the 1970s and 1980s, and Jacori's best year is 2010, which shows the system was still generating new names three decades later. What it was building from by then were not old names but recent American ones, so the newest coinages are made of the previous generation's coinages, and the Irish surname at the bottom of the stack is four removes away.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
Corey has more than one route: the Irish surname O Comhraidhe, whose own sense is not recovered; an English surname from a Norse personal name Kori; and a Cornish place name. The Ja- prefix is a free American naming element with no meaning. Whichever route Corey took, the prefixed form is generally treated as a new name rather than a modified old one.
How the name formed
- O Comhraidhe
- Corey
- Jacori
Related forms: Jakori · Corey
Pronouncing Jacori
juh-KOR-ee
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Some families front-stress it as JAY-kor-ee, which follows the Jay- names rather than the prefix ones.
Nicknames for Jacori
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1984
- Most boys named
- 201060 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2187reached in 2010
- Change vs 2024
- −13.3%13 in 2025, from 15
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jacori in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jakori in English — spelling variant
- Corey in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.
Jacoris among us
people named Jacori are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 131,390 born in 2025 was named Jacori
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jacori
- #6446
- Jacori on the 2025 chart
- #891
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jacori went to 13 boys in 2025, but Jakori and Jacory are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 37, which makes it the 891st most-given boys’ name of the year — 5,555 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 46,164 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 131,390 for Jacori itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Tomy test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jacori's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Tomy climbed just as high around 1926, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Tomy's path sketches the road Jacori is walking now.
Jacori sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Jacori beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jacori in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Contains Corey, a complete and long-established American name.
- Three syllables with the weight in the middle, an uncommon rhythm.
- Spelled the way it sounds, with no silent letters.
- Jakori, Jacorey and Jacori all circulate and split the records.
- Two stress patterns compete and the spelling does not settle between them.
- The Irish surname at the bottom is too far back to claim as a meaning.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jacoris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Jacori are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jacori?
- Jacori is one of 3 recorded spellings. Jakori is the more common one — 16 births in 2025 against 13 for Jacori.
- How popular is the name Jacori in 2025?
- Jacori ranks #6446 among US boy names in 2025, with 13 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jacori?
- About 1 in every 131,390 US boys born in 2025 was named Jacori — 13 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jacori with classmates?
- Jacori will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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