Meaning not yet researched.
Jacobe: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,951 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,951 in 2000; #9,235 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jacobe in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,235 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #1,951.
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Jacobe: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,951 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 59 (2007).
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Jacobe, making it the 9,235th most common boys’ name of the year, down 633 places from #8,602 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 9 boys named Jacobe in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,951, reached in 2000. The most boys given the name in a single year was 59, in 2007. For comparison, it was #5,150 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jacobe in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 7 babies. In all, 1,300 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 505 babies named Jacobe.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 129 US boys were named Jacobe; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jacob (990,532 babies since 1880), Jakob (31,959 babies since 1880), Jakobe (4,883 babies since 1880) and Jaycob (4,519 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jacobe in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 8 | #9,235 |
| 2024 | — | — | 9 | #8,602 |
| 2023 | — | — | 8 | #9,257 |
| 2022 | — | — | 12 | #6,986 |
| 2021 | — | — | 11 | #7,298 |
| 2020 | — | — | 14 | #6,102 |
| 2019 | — | — | 20 | #4,872 |
| 2018 | — | — | 14 | #6,155 |
| 2017 | — | — | 15 | #5,908 |
| 2016 | — | — | 18 | #5,209 |
| 2015 | — | — | 18 | #5,150 |
| 2014 | — | — | 26 | #3,946 |
| 2013 | — | — | 33 | #3,292 |
| 2012 | — | — | 35 | #3,197 |
| 2011 | — | — | 39 | #2,966 |
| 2010 | — | — | 34 | #3,266 |
| 2009 | — | — | 44 | #2,778 |
| 2008 | — | — | 48 | #2,604 |
| 2007 | — | — | 59 | #2,245 |
| 2006 | — | — | 54 | #2,330 |
| 2005 | — | — | 45 | #2,505 |
| 2004 | — | — | 54 | #2,174 |
| 2003 | — | — | 56 | #2,039 |
| 2002 | — | — | 45 | #2,315 |
| 2001 | — | — | 47 | #2,195 |
| 2000 | — | — | 53 | #1,951 |
| 1999 | — | — | 44 | #2,148 |
| 1998 | — | — | 46 | #2,050 |
| 1997 | — | — | 41 | #2,146 |
| 1996 | — | — | 23 | #3,152 |
| 1995 | — | — | 19 | #3,483 |
| 1994 | — | — | 26 | #2,803 |
| 1993 | — | — | 30 | #2,476 |
| 1992 | — | — | 35 | #2,193 |
| 1991 | — | — | 19 | #3,260 |
| 1990 | — | — | 31 | #2,279 |
| 1989 | — | — | 15 | #3,699 |
| 1988 | — | — | 14 | #3,595 |
| 1987 | — | — | 18 | #2,882 |
| 1986 | — | — | 11 | #3,980 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,176 |
| 1984 | — | — | 15 | #3,019 |
| 1983 | — | — | 9 | #4,289 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #5,952 |
| 1981 | — | — | 17 | #2,714 |
| 1980 | — | — | 12 | #3,497 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,055 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,205 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #4,810 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,625 |
| 1975 | — | — | 7 | #4,526 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,355 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).