In 2025, 77 US boys were named Jacobo, making it the 1,982nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 239 places from #1,743 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 95 boys named Jacobo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,368, reached in 1910. The most boys given the name in a single year was 109, in 2023. For comparison, it was #2,075 in 2015 and #2,374 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jacobo in 103 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 7 babies. In all, 3,486 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 802 babies named Jacobo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 865 US boys were named Jacobo; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 109. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,183 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jacobo ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,087 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include James (5,274,520 babies since 1880), Jacob (990,532 babies since 1880), Jim (153,938 babies since 1880) and Diego (126,405 babies since 1880).