Meaning not yet researched.
Jakoby: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,472 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,472 in 2018; #3,986 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jakoby in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,986 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #1,472.
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Jakoby: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,472 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 118 (2018).
In 2025, 27 US boys were named Jakoby, making it the 3,986th most common boys’ name of the year, down 428 places from #3,558 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 32 boys named Jakoby in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,472, reached in 2018. That year also had the most boys given the name: 118. For comparison, it was #1,990 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jakoby in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 9 babies. In all, 1,703 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 809 babies named Jakoby.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 585 US boys were named Jakoby; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 118. In 2025 that was about 1 in 63,262 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jacoby (11,281 babies since 1880), Jacobi (4,501 babies since 1880) and Jakobi (2,695 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Jakoby 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 | — | — | 27 | #3,986 |
| 2024 | — | — | 32 | #3,558 |
| 2023 | — | — | 42 | #2,973 |
| 2022 | — | — | 58 | #2,421 |
| 2021 | — | — | 46 | #2,750 |
| 2020 | — | — | 79 | #1,882 |
| 2019 | — | — | 61 | #2,275 |
| 2018 | — | — | 118 | #1,472 |
| 2017 | — | — | 59 | #2,253 |
| 2016 | — | — | 63 | #2,177 |
| 2015 | — | — | 73 | #1,990 |
| 2014 | — | — | 81 | #1,834 |
| 2013 | — | — | 101 | #1,560 |
| 2012 | — | — | 74 | #1,928 |
| 2011 | — | — | 92 | #1,649 |
| 2010 | — | — | 87 | #1,746 |
| 2009 | — | — | 90 | #1,726 |
| 2008 | — | — | 103 | #1,557 |
| 2007 | — | — | 60 | #2,222 |
| 2006 | — | — | 39 | #2,900 |
| 2005 | — | — | 35 | #2,978 |
| 2004 | — | — | 30 | #3,245 |
| 2003 | — | — | 41 | #2,525 |
| 2002 | — | — | 45 | #2,316 |
| 2001 | — | — | 36 | #2,649 |
| 2000 | — | — | 38 | #2,500 |
| 1999 | — | — | 25 | #3,221 |
| 1998 | — | — | 27 | #2,963 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #5,825 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,461 |
| 1995 | — | — | 8 | #6,632 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,138 |
| 1991 | — | — | 9 | #5,697 |
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).