Jacobe

Peak · boys
2000 · 53 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,300
since 1974

Jacobe over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Jacobe has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #1,944, 2000boys
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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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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#8,9108
2024#8,3129
2023#8,9218
2022#6,82812
2021#7,08911
2020#5,98014
2019#4,80620
2018#6,03614
2017#5,78815
2016#5,12418
2015#5,05818
2014#3,89126
2013#3,26533
2012#3,17935
2011#2,95039
2010#3,23934
2009#2,75344
2008#2,58348
2007#2,23559
2006#2,31054
2005#2,49345
2004#2,16454
2003#2,03156
2002#2,29545
2001#2,18547
2000#1,94453
1999#2,14044
1998#2,04046
1997#2,12641
1996#3,10723
1995#3,43219
1994#2,76626
1993#2,45530
1992#2,17435
1991#3,22419
1990#2,25531
1989#3,61815
1988#3,52314
1987#2,83818
1986#3,88211
1985#4,05210
1984#2,95615
1983#4,1419
1982#5,6196
1981#2,68017
1980#3,43012
1979#4,8427
1978#5,7725
1977#4,5827
1976#4,4187
1975#4,3097
1974#4,1907
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First appearance
1974

The first year at least five boys were named Jacobe! It came in at #4,190, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1974–1979, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.

Where Jacobe is popular in 2025

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

See more about Jacobe
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 598 spots since 2024 (#8,312 → #8,910)
  • 2,930 spots since 2020 (#5,980 → #8,910)
  • 3,852 spots since 2015 (#5,058 → #8,910)
Rise & fade · boys
26 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1974
  • Peaked 2000 at #1,944 (53 births)
  • Births halved by 2014, 14 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 35,177
  • Highest: 1 in 35,177 boys born in 2007 were named Jacobe (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,944 in 2000, was only 1 in 37,057 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 38.8% of all boys named Jacobe (505) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s40#4,190 (1974)#4,686
1980s127#2,680 (1981)#3,674
1990s314#2,040 (1998)#2,572
2000s505#1,944 (2000)#2,299
2010s252#2,950 (2011)#4,334
2020s62#5,980 (2020)#7,673

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

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