Meaning not yet researched.
Jakobe: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 122 in 2025. Its best rank was #818 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #818 in 2003; #1,461 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jakobe in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,461 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #818.
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Jakobe: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 122 boys in 2025. Peak: #818 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 273 (2020).
In 2025, 122 US boys were named Jakobe, making it the 1,461st most common boys’ name of the year, down 156 places from #1,305 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 150 boys named Jakobe in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #818, reached in 2003. The most boys given the name in a single year was 273, in 2020. For comparison, it was #1,163 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jakobe in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 8 babies. In all, 4,883 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,793 babies named Jakobe.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,765 US boys were named Jakobe; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 273. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,001 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jakobe ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #631 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jacob (990,532 babies since 1880), Jakob (31,959 babies since 1880), Jakub (3,067 babies since 1880) and Jacobe (1,300 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Jakobe 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 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 7 | #631 | #702 |
| North Carolina | 13 | #700 | #862 |
| Georgia | 11 | #817 | #810 |
| Indiana | 6 | #896 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,093 | #858 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,179 | #1,150 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,296 | #1,324 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,372 | #802 |
| Texas | 8 | #1,981 | #1,083 |
| California | 5 | #2,607 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 122 | #1,461 |
| 2024 | — | — | 150 | #1,305 |
| 2023 | — | — | 180 | #1,159 |
| 2022 | — | — | 201 | #1,086 |
| 2021 | — | — | 239 | #947 |
| 2020 | — | — | 273 | #836 |
| 2019 | — | — | 130 | #1,375 |
| 2018 | — | — | 148 | #1,247 |
| 2017 | — | — | 148 | #1,241 |
| 2016 | — | — | 174 | #1,122 |
| 2015 | — | — | 160 | #1,163 |
| 2014 | — | — | 201 | #1,017 |
| 2013 | — | — | 204 | #983 |
| 2012 | — | — | 161 | #1,137 |
| 2011 | — | — | 215 | #928 |
| 2010 | — | — | 212 | #947 |
| 2009 | — | — | 209 | #963 |
| 2008 | — | — | 218 | #933 |
| 2007 | — | — | 167 | #1,092 |
| 2006 | — | — | 143 | #1,181 |
| 2005 | — | — | 129 | #1,230 |
| 2004 | — | — | 210 | #846 |
| 2003 | — | — | 214 | #818 |
| 2002 | — | — | 195 | #851 |
| 2001 | — | — | 172 | #910 |
| 2000 | — | — | 136 | #1,055 |
| 1999 | — | — | 78 | #1,473 |
| 1998 | — | — | 76 | #1,468 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #5,824 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #6,750 |
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).