Jacoba

Peak · girls
1900 · 5 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
296
since 1900

Jacoba over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Jacoba has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #1,932, 1900girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025—
2024—
2023#15,1945
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2017#15,9025
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2014#16,5135
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2004#14,1796
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1998#11,1387
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1996#13,5185
1995#8,7669
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1991#11,5096
1990—
1989#7,44910
1988#8,3918
1987#9,8256
1986—
1985#8,3187
1984—
1983#8,0477
1982#5,91111
1981#7,4098
1980#7,4188
1979#7,3138
1978#8,5626
1977#6,8928
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1956#5,9525
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1943#4,1966
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1938#3,4507
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1933#4,2185
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1930#4,0476
1929#4,5705
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1927#4,8055
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1925#4,4266
1924#3,6658
1923#3,3509
1922#3,15210
1921#2,19517
1920#4,9755
1919#3,2199
1918#3,02410
1917#4,5945
1916#2,65811
1915#4,2745
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1913#2,1649
1912#2,6346
1911#1,9567
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1900#1,9325
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First appearance
1900

The first year at least five girls were named Jacoba! It came in at #1,932, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1900–1910, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Jacoba is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Jacoba in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Jacoba
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1900
  • Peaked 1900 at #1,932 (5 births)
  • Births halved by 1901, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 59,758
  • Highest: 1 in 59,758 girls born in 1911 were named Jacoba (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 320,916 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,932 in 1900, was only 1 in 59,957 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 22.0% of all girls named Jacoba (65) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s5#1,932 (1900)#1,932
1910s62#1,956 (1911)#3,065
1920s65#2,195 (1921)#3,892
1930s18#3,450 (1938)#3,905
1940s6#4,196 (1943)#4,196
1950s5#5,952 (1956)#5,952
1960s0——
1970s22#6,892 (1977)#7,589
1980s65#5,911 (1982)#7,846
1990s27#8,766 (1995)#11,233
2000s6#14,179 (2004)#14,179
2010s10#15,902 (2017)#16,208
2020s5#15,194 (2023)#15,194

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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