Given name & surname
Jaki
Jaki is a surname from Hungarian. It is used in Polish and Icelandic.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1956. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jaki through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 361
- 261 boys · 100 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 25 babies
- 2025
- 13
- #6,609 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +47%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 13 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,609 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 20 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 521 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jaki’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Jaki
- Jaki LiebezeitGerman musician (1938-2017)
- Jaki ByardAmerican musician (1922-1999)
- Jaki NumazawaJapanese professional wrestlerborn 1977
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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