Jacobi
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #13,592 · #2,304 for boys in 2025, 60 births
Given to boys 93.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2008 · 189 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,195since 1973
Jacobi over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,304 | 60 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,809 | 90 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,735 | 95 | |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | #1,839 | 87 |
| 2021 | — | #1,514 | 117 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,415 | 122 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,432 | 122 | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #1,352 | 132 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #1,421 | 122 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #1,295 | 140 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #1,304 | 136 |
| 2014 | — | #1,229 | 148 | |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #1,235 | 144 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #1,237 | 143 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #1,118 | 163 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #1,115 | 170 |
| 2009 | — | #1,039 | 184 | |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | #1,014 | 189 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 | #1,188 | 148 |
| 2006 | — | #1,322 | 124 | |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | #1,431 | 103 |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 | #1,349 | 108 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #1,210 | 121 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | #1,139 | 125 |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 | #1,242 | 107 |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 | #1,353 | 94 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | #1,395 | 84 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 | #1,338 | 89 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | #1,580 | 64 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | #1,638 | 59 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | #1,706 | 52 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #1,822 | 47 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 | #1,638 | 54 |
| 1992 | #4,686 | 21 | #1,162 | 90 |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 | #2,095 | 35 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | #2,170 | 33 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #2,545 | 25 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #2,090 | 30 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #2,400 | 23 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | #2,226 | 25 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | #2,226 | 24 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | #2,364 | 21 |
| 1983 | — | #1,864 | 29 | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #1,890 | 29 |
| 1981 | — | #4,153 | 9 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,965 | 15 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,569 | 11 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,799 | 15 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,910 | 14 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,935 | 6 | |
| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,694 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jacobi! It came in at #3,694, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1976, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Jacobi is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Tennessee#681 · 1 in 4,534
- Missouri#686 · 1 in 4,372
- Alabama#728 · 1 in 4,574
- Illinois#791 · 1 in 5,630
- Georgia#799 · 1 in 5,369
Best ever in a state: #197 in South Dakota, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | #681 | 8 | 1 in 4,534 |
| Missouri | #686 | 7 | 1 in 4,372 |
| Alabama | #728 | 5 | 1 in 4,574 |
| Illinois | #791 | 11 | 1 in 5,630 |
| Georgia | #799 | 10 | 1 in 5,369 |
| North Carolina | #857 | 8 | 1 in 6,416 |
| Texas | #1,092 | 17 | 1 in 10,363 |
| Florida | #1,362 | 7 | 1 in 13,810 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jacobi
- 495 spots since 2024 (#1,809 → #2,304)
- 889 spots since 2020 (#1,415 → #2,304)
- 1,000 spots since 2015 (#1,304 → #2,304)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2008 at #1,014 (189 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,780 boys born in 2009 were named Jacobi (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 28,468 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,014 in 2008, was only 1 in 10,794 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.8% of all boys named Jacobi (1,420) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 64 | #2,799 (1978) | #4,085 |
| 1980s | 230 | #1,864 (1983) | #2,472 |
| 1990s | 607 | #1,162 (1992) | #1,654 |
| 2000s | 1,303 | #1,014 (2008) | #1,229 |
| 2010s | 1,420 | #1,115 (2010) | #1,274 |
| 2020s | 571 | #1,415 (2020) | #1,769 |
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.
Jacobi in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 345,292 of them was named Jacobi, which outranked 13.8% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #14,124Zyleigh6
- #14,124Zyllah6
- #14,124Zyona6
- #15,902Jacobi5
- #15,902Aadilynn5
- #15,902Aafiyah5
- #15,902Aaheli5
Tied with 2,546 names at #15,902; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 15,172 of them was named Jacobi, which outranked 90.0% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,413Lathan123
- #1,413Montgomery123
- #1,413Yasir123
- #1,421Jacobi122
- #1,421Arden122
- #1,421Boyd122
- #1,421Geovanni122
- #1,429Klayton121
- #1,429Ollie121
- #1,429Riggs121
Tied with 7 names at #1,421; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.