Meaning not yet researched.
Jakub: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,035 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,035 in 2008; #3,271 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jakub in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,271 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #1,035.
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Jakub: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,035 in 2008 · most boys in one year: 184 (2008).
In 2025, 36 US boys were named Jakub, making it the 3,271st most common boys’ name of the year, down 139 places from #3,132 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 39 boys named Jakub in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,035, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 184. For comparison, it was #1,696 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jakub in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 5 babies. In all, 3,067 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,403 babies named Jakub.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 523 US boys were named Jakub; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 79. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,447 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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 Kuba 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kuba (119).
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 Jakub 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 | — | — | 36 | #3,271 |
| 2024 | — | — | 39 | #3,132 |
| 2023 | — | — | 39 | #3,145 |
| 2022 | — | — | 49 | #2,689 |
| 2021 | — | — | 55 | #2,449 |
| 2020 | — | — | 47 | #2,672 |
| 2019 | — | — | 44 | #2,826 |
| 2018 | — | — | 59 | #2,293 |
| 2017 | — | — | 76 | #1,904 |
| 2016 | — | — | 79 | #1,883 |
| 2015 | — | — | 92 | #1,696 |
| 2014 | — | — | 95 | #1,635 |
| 2013 | — | — | 97 | #1,595 |
| 2012 | — | — | 106 | #1,518 |
| 2011 | — | — | 106 | #1,513 |
| 2010 | — | — | 147 | #1,211 |
| 2009 | — | — | 145 | #1,236 |
| 2008 | — | — | 184 | #1,035 |
| 2007 | — | — | 174 | #1,072 |
| 2006 | — | — | 168 | #1,068 |
| 2005 | — | — | 136 | #1,175 |
| 2004 | — | — | 151 | #1,063 |
| 2003 | — | — | 122 | #1,207 |
| 2002 | — | — | 125 | #1,144 |
| 2001 | — | — | 121 | #1,149 |
| 2000 | — | — | 77 | #1,558 |
| 1999 | — | — | 73 | #1,536 |
| 1998 | — | — | 88 | #1,353 |
| 1997 | — | — | 67 | #1,541 |
| 1996 | — | — | 51 | #1,797 |
| 1995 | — | — | 47 | #1,850 |
| 1994 | — | — | 44 | #1,908 |
| 1993 | — | — | 35 | #2,231 |
| 1992 | — | — | 32 | #2,328 |
| 1991 | — | — | 11 | #4,907 |
| 1990 | — | — | 14 | #4,065 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,576 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,434 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #5,059 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,144 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,694 |
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).