Jak

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Jak: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Jak: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #212 in 2002, and it stood at #3,688 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#212highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#274
1997	#263
1998	#249
1999	#241
2000	#237
2001	#243
2002	#212
2003	#233
2004	#261
2005	#316
2006	#363
2007	#368
2008	#444
2009	#498
2010	#589
2011	#602
2012	#837
2013	#730
2014	#781
2015	#807
2016	#1157
2017	#1146
2018	#1875
2019	#1316
2020	#2076
2021	#2125
2022	#2018
2023	#3523
2024	#3688

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2006: #341 among boys in Northern Ireland, #363 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #274 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #212 among boys in England and Wales, in 2002 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3688 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Jak by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Jak in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	452	4 of 10	113
2000sbusiest	1,111	10 of 10	111
2010s	353	10 of 10	35
2020s	41	5 of 10	8

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 111 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2001 and 2002, when recorded births rose by 41, from 118 to 159.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Jak appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #212 in England and Wales in 2002.

Jak's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#3688	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3523	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2018	11	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2125	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2076	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1316	19	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1875	12	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1146	24	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1157	24	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#807	39	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#781	40	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#730	44	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#837	37	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#602	57	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#589	57	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#498	70	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#444	82	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#368	99	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#363	94	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#316	101	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#261	125	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#233	138	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#212	159	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#243	118	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#237	125	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#241	126	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#249	117	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#263	107	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#274	102	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	male	#341	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #212, first reached in 2002.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 159 births, registered in England and Wales in 2002.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2006, and 10 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Jaiveer · #1324, 21y
Jaiya · #1665, 25y
Jake · #7, 41y
Jakob · #6, 81y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Laiba · #212, 27y
Seosamh · #214, 28y
Findlay · #209, 29y
Deanna · #207, 32y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aimee-Leigh · #212, 21y
Laiba · #212, 27y
Bertie · #211, 30y
Coby · #213, 30y

Jak was ranked #212 in England and Wales · Boys in 2002. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Jak and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Jak without appearing here.

Jak moved ahead of

Brett Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3523 and #3523 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3688 and #4270.
Grant Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3523 and #2813 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3688 and #4270.
Courtney Compare
In 1996 they stood at #274 and #247 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #263 and #399.

Moved ahead of Jak

Isak Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2018 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3523 and #1461.
Wayne Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2018 and #2320 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3523 and #1610.
Rodney Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2018 and #2320 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3523 and #1906.
Geoffrey Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3523 and #4107 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #3688 and #2443.

Moved the opposite way to Jak

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jak went from #274 to #3688 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jak went from #274 to #3688 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jak went from #274 to #3688 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jak went from #274 to #3688 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Jak

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jak went from #274 to #3688 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jak went from #274 to #3688 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jak went from #274 to #3688 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jak went from #274 to #3688 and Alex from #43 to #171.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #212 in England and Wales in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Jak

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Jak by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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