In 2025, 101 US boys were named Jakobi, making it the 1,657th most common boys’ name of the year, down 90 places from #1,567 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 111 boys named Jakobi in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,181, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 173. For comparison, it was #1,606 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jakobi in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 10 babies. In all, 2,695 US babies have been given the name, 1.7% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,042 babies named Jakobi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,286 US boys were named Jakobi; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 173. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,912 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jakobi ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #576 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jacoby (11,281 babies since 1880), Jacobi (4,501 babies since 1880) and Jakoby (1,703 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jakobee are summarised on this page.