Meaning not yet researched.
Jakob: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 135 in 2025. Its best rank was #172 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #172 in 2001; #1,372 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jakob in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,372 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #172.
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Jakob: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 135 boys in 2025. Peak: #172 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 2,192 (2001).
In 2025, 135 US boys were named Jakob, making it the 1,372nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 251 places from #1,121 in 2024. That is 56 fewer than the 191 boys named Jakob in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #172, reached in 2001. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,192. For comparison, it was #525 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jakob in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 7 babies. In all, 31,959 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 14,765 babies named Jakob.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,815 US boys were named Jakob; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 476. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,652 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jakob ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #593 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). Rarer spellings such as Jaykub, Jahkobe and Jaikub are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Jake.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Jaykub (83), Jahkobe (15), Jaikub (5).
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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 5 | #593 | #375 |
| Colorado | 5 | #900 | #461 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,041 | #632 |
| California | 17 | #1,173 | #517 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,295 | #435 |
| New York | 8 | #1,350 | #455 |
| Texas | 9 | #1,817 | #504 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 135 | #1,372 |
| 2024 | — | — | 191 | #1,121 |
| 2023 | — | — | 189 | #1,119 |
| 2022 | — | — | 227 | #991 |
| 2021 | — | — | 281 | #846 |
| 2020 | — | — | 256 | #884 |
| 2019 | — | — | 312 | #759 |
| 2018 | — | — | 344 | #703 |
| 2017 | — | — | 404 | #640 |
| 2016 | — | — | 476 | #581 |
| 2015 | — | — | 548 | #525 |
| 2014 | — | — | 645 | #458 |
| 2013 | — | — | 711 | #416 |
| 2012 | — | — | 742 | #395 |
| 2011 | — | — | 910 | #334 |
| 2010 | — | — | 1,097 | #298 |
| 2009 | — | — | 989 | #324 |
| 2008 | — | — | 1,083 | #308 |
| 2007 | — | — | 1,108 | #303 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,158 | #293 |
| 2005 | — | — | 1,215 | #275 |
| 2004 | — | — | 1,416 | #235 |
| 2003 | — | — | 1,607 | #218 |
| 2002 | — | — | 1,836 | #203 |
| 2001 | — | — | 2,192 | #172 |
| 2000 | — | — | 2,161 | #173 |
| 1999 | — | — | 1,693 | #200 |
| 1998 | — | — | 1,784 | #191 |
| 1997 | — | — | 1,387 | #220 |
| 1996 | — | — | 611 | #382 |
| 1995 | — | — | 561 | #407 |
| 1994 | — | — | 530 | #431 |
| 1993 | — | — | 487 | #449 |
| 1992 | — | — | 436 | #482 |
| 1991 | — | — | 368 | #522 |
| 1990 | — | — | 306 | #578 |
| 1989 | — | — | 249 | #635 |
| 1988 | — | — | 179 | #699 |
| 1987 | — | — | 148 | #751 |
| 1986 | — | — | 146 | #752 |
| 1985 | — | — | 83 | #1,002 |
| 1984 | — | — | 84 | #971 |
| 1983 | — | — | 89 | #938 |
| 1982 | — | — | 78 | #1,029 |
| 1981 | — | — | 80 | #1,016 |
| 1980 | — | — | 78 | #1,028 |
| 1979 | — | — | 62 | #1,143 |
| 1978 | — | — | 46 | #1,359 |
| 1977 | — | — | 49 | #1,275 |
| 1976 | — | — | 27 | #1,850 |
| 1975 | — | — | 32 | #1,605 |
| 1974 | — | — | 27 | #1,764 |
| 1973 | — | — | 11 | #3,105 |
| 1972 | — | — | 17 | #2,277 |
| 1971 | — | — | 11 | #3,046 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,466 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,900 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,858 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,211 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,802 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,310 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,821 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,333 |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,776 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,713 |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,390 |
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).