Jakori
Masculine
Jakori is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 598 boys against 10 girls since 1880.
Jakori is Ja- joined to a -kori ending, and it belongs to a late phase of American prefix naming when the second elements had stopped being borrowed names and become bare sounds.
How old is the name Jakori?
Jakori first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Jakori alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 600 people named Jakori are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jakori most popular?
Jakori peaked in 2011, reaching #2626 nationally. Today it ranks #5608, 2,982 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Jakori
Naming systems have a late phase and its signature is that the second elements stop being names. Early on, De- and Ja- attached to Shawn, Marcus, Juan and Andre — all complete names with their own histories. By the 2000s they were attaching to syllables: -kori, -mari, -veon, -quan. What that changes is what you can say about the result. A name built from two names has two histories to report, even if the joining is recent. A name built from a prefix and a sound has none. Jakori is in the second group, and its peak in 2011 sits near the end of the whole prefix era, when almost nothing was left to attach to.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source establishes an etymology. The Ja- prefix is a productive American naming element with no documented meaning; the -kori ending has no traceable source, though it shares its shape with Corey and Kori, whose own origin is unsettled. Japanese kori and Greek kore are sometimes offered and are not connected to the American name.
Pronouncing Jakori
juh-KOR-ee
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Some families say JAH-kor-ee with the weight at the front, and the spelling supports both.
Nicknames for Jakori
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
- 1993
- Most boys named
- 201146 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2626reached in 2011
- Change vs 2024
- +6.7%16 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.
Jakori in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Georgia, Missouri.
Jakoris among us
people named Jakori are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 106,755 born in 2025 was named Jakori
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jakori
- #5608
- Jakori on the 2025 chart
- #891
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jakori went to 16 boys in 2025, but Jacori 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 — 4,717 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 46,164 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 106,755 for Jakori 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 Kavan test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jakori's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kavan climbed just as high around 1995, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kavan's path sketches the road Jakori is walking now.
Jakori 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
Jakori beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jakori in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Kori and Jay both work as short forms.
- The vowels are open and there is no difficult consonant.
- It reads immediately as a name of its family.
- There is no meaning behind it to give a child.
- The stress placement is not fixed by the spelling.
- It is closely dated to the 2000s and 2010s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jakoris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Jakori are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jakori?
- Jakori is the most-used spelling in US records — 16 of the 37 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Jacori and Jacory.
- How popular is the name Jakori in 2025?
- Jakori ranks #5608 among US boy names in 2025, with 16 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jakori?
- About 1 in every 106,755 US boys born in 2025 was named Jakori — 16 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jakori with classmates?
- Jakori will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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