Meaning not yet researched.
Jacoby: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 126 in 2025. Its best rank was #422 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #422 in 2008; #1,430 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jacoby in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,430 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #422.
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Jacoby: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 126 boys in 2025. Peak: #422 in 2008 · most boys in one year: 691 (2008).
In 2025, 126 US boys were named Jacoby, making it the 1,430th most common boys’ name of the year, down 108 places from #1,322 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 146 boys named Jacoby in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #422, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 691. For comparison, it was #656 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jacoby in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1959 with 9 babies. In all, 11,281 US babies have been given the name, 1.1% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,189 babies named Jacoby.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,264 US boys were named Jacoby; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 334. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,556 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jacoby ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #621 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jacobi (4,501 babies since 1880), Jakobi (2,695 babies since 1880) and Jakoby (1,703 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jacobie, Jacobey and Jacobee are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jacobie (916), Jacobey (163), Jacobee (59), Jakobey (37), Jacobia (20).
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 Jacoby in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 7 | #621 | #516 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #691 | #465 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,074 | #657 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,077 | #637 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,396 | #704 |
| Texas | 9 | #1,814 | #781 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 126 | #1,430 |
| 2024 | — | — | 146 | #1,322 |
| 2023 | — | — | 169 | #1,195 |
| 2022 | — | — | 164 | #1,210 |
| 2021 | — | — | 261 | #885 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,088 | 245 | #911 |
| 2019 | — | — | 254 | #870 |
| 2018 | — | — | 266 | #838 |
| 2017 | — | — | 299 | #785 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,083 | 334 | #732 |
| 2015 | — | — | 394 | #656 |
| 2014 | — | — | 468 | #589 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,637 | 569 | #485 |
| 2012 | — | — | 503 | #522 |
| 2011 | — | — | 543 | #485 |
| 2010 | — | — | 548 | #474 |
| 2009 | — | — | 630 | #444 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,635 | 691 | #422 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,145 | 395 | #622 |
| 2006 | — | — | 210 | #915 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,555 | 202 | #892 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,869 | 216 | #826 |
| 2003 | — | — | 233 | #760 |
| 2002 | — | — | 224 | #771 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,318 | 237 | #736 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,835 | 194 | #825 |
| 1999 | — | — | 175 | #865 |
| 1998 | — | — | 209 | #765 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,615 | 141 | #955 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,424 | 159 | #868 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,353 | 152 | #890 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,373 | 167 | #825 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,015 | 190 | #758 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,024 | 201 | #730 |
| 1991 | — | — | 150 | #854 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,811 | 129 | #908 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,137 | 117 | #942 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,864 | 108 | #918 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,351 | 92 | #994 |
| 1986 | — | — | 92 | #956 |
| 1985 | — | — | 80 | #1,024 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,560 | 71 | #1,061 |
| 1983 | — | — | 93 | #919 |
| 1982 | — | — | 36 | #1,662 |
| 1981 | — | — | 42 | #1,485 |
| 1980 | — | — | 31 | #1,830 |
| 1979 | — | — | 41 | #1,475 |
| 1978 | — | — | 38 | #1,516 |
| 1977 | — | — | 17 | #2,598 |
| 1976 | — | — | 23 | #2,081 |
| 1975 | — | — | 24 | #1,972 |
| 1974 | — | — | 18 | #2,313 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,258 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,775 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,627 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #4,016 |
| 1961 | — | — | 7 | #3,500 |
| 1959 | — | — | 9 | #2,924 |
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).