Meaning not yet researched.
Jacolby: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,258 in 1992.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,258 in 1992; #5,968 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jacolby in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,968 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1992, at #1,258.
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Jacolby: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,258 in 1992 · most boys in one year: 81 (1992).
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Jacolby, making it the 5,968th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,635 places from #8,603 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 9 boys named Jacolby in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,258, reached in 1992. That year also had the most boys given the name: 81. For comparison, it was #3,622 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jacolby in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 5 babies. In all, 1,572 US babies have been given the name, 1.0% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 522 babies named Jacolby.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 197 US boys were named Jacolby; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 113,872 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Jakolby, Jacolbi and Jakolbi 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jakolby (177), Jacolbi (32), Jakolbi (10).
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 Jacolby 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 | — | — | 15 | #5,968 |
| 2024 | — | — | 9 | #8,603 |
| 2023 | — | — | 15 | #6,047 |
| 2022 | — | — | 18 | #5,294 |
| 2021 | — | — | 21 | #4,690 |
| 2020 | — | — | 17 | #5,337 |
| 2019 | — | — | 15 | #5,934 |
| 2018 | — | — | 23 | #4,415 |
| 2017 | — | — | 29 | #3,713 |
| 2016 | — | — | 35 | #3,255 |
| 2015 | — | — | 30 | #3,622 |
| 2014 | — | — | 31 | #3,493 |
| 2013 | — | — | 40 | #2,866 |
| 2012 | — | — | 30 | #3,576 |
| 2011 | — | — | 35 | #3,200 |
| 2010 | — | — | 37 | #3,103 |
| 2009 | — | — | 43 | #2,818 |
| 2008 | — | — | 49 | #2,562 |
| 2007 | — | — | 32 | #3,402 |
| 2006 | — | — | 37 | #2,998 |
| 2005 | — | — | 44 | #2,543 |
| 2004 | — | — | 46 | #2,434 |
| 2003 | — | — | 38 | #2,643 |
| 2002 | — | — | 57 | #1,958 |
| 2001 | — | — | 60 | #1,849 |
| 2000 | — | — | 53 | #1,952 |
| 1999 | — | — | 68 | #1,597 |
| 1998 | — | — | 48 | #2,000 |
| 1997 | — | — | 44 | #2,037 |
| 1996 | — | — | 44 | #2,000 |
| 1995 | — | — | 44 | #1,935 |
| 1994 | — | — | 50 | #1,759 |
| 1993 | — | — | 64 | #1,465 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,095 | 81 | #1,258 |
| 1991 | — | — | 38 | #1,995 |
| 1990 | — | — | 36 | #2,058 |
| 1989 | — | — | 43 | #1,775 |
| 1988 | — | — | 41 | #1,719 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,984 | 35 | #1,842 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,599 | 30 | #1,981 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #4,878 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #5,885 |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,669 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,765 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,690 |
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).