Meaning not yet researched.
Jaycob: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 81 in 2025. Its best rank was #888 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #888 in 2012; #1,926 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jaycob in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,926 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #888.
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Jaycob: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 81 boys in 2025. Peak: #888 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 236 (2012).
In 2025, 81 US boys were named Jaycob, making it the 1,926th most common boys’ name of the year, up 478 places from #2,404 in 2024. That is 23 more than the 58 boys named Jaycob in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #888, reached in 2012. That year also had the most boys given the name: 236. For comparison, it was #1,065 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jaycob in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 12 babies. In all, 4,519 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,893 babies named Jaycob.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,081 US boys were named Jaycob; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 167. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,087 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jaycob ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #973 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), Jacobe (1,300 babies since 1880) and Jaykob (1,119 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 Jaycob 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 6 | #973 | #682 |
| New York | 10 | #1,164 | #752 |
| Texas | 13 | #1,441 | #891 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,718 | #792 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 81 | #1,926 |
| 2024 | — | — | 58 | #2,404 |
| 2023 | — | — | 68 | #2,138 |
| 2022 | — | — | 82 | #1,913 |
| 2021 | — | — | 96 | #1,703 |
| 2020 | — | — | 104 | #1,569 |
| 2019 | — | — | 117 | #1,473 |
| 2018 | — | — | 166 | #1,155 |
| 2017 | — | — | 142 | #1,280 |
| 2016 | — | — | 167 | #1,151 |
| 2015 | — | — | 186 | #1,065 |
| 2014 | — | — | 223 | #950 |
| 2013 | — | — | 211 | #946 |
| 2012 | — | — | 236 | #888 |
| 2011 | — | — | 211 | #942 |
| 2010 | — | — | 234 | #889 |
| 2009 | — | — | 206 | #971 |
| 2008 | — | — | 158 | #1,150 |
| 2007 | — | — | 165 | #1,108 |
| 2006 | — | — | 145 | #1,164 |
| 2005 | — | — | 127 | #1,247 |
| 2004 | — | — | 149 | #1,073 |
| 2003 | — | — | 127 | #1,179 |
| 2002 | — | — | 112 | #1,227 |
| 2001 | — | — | 122 | #1,140 |
| 2000 | — | — | 120 | #1,156 |
| 1999 | — | — | 97 | #1,270 |
| 1998 | — | — | 81 | #1,413 |
| 1997 | — | — | 94 | #1,235 |
| 1996 | — | — | 76 | #1,393 |
| 1995 | — | — | 62 | #1,536 |
| 1994 | — | — | 59 | #1,569 |
| 1993 | — | — | 46 | #1,835 |
| 1992 | — | — | 39 | #2,019 |
| 1991 | — | — | 34 | #2,169 |
| 1990 | — | — | 25 | #2,655 |
| 1989 | — | — | 19 | #3,146 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #4,028 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,478 |
| 1986 | — | — | 14 | #3,337 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #4,894 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,741 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #3,997 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,792 |
| 1981 | — | — | 12 | #3,501 |
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).