Jacoby
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #15,088 · #1,425 for boys in 2025, 126 births
Given to boys 98.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2008 · 691 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 11,161since 1959
Jacoby over time
Rank among boys' names. Jacoby has never cracked the top 400 here.
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 | — | #1,425 | 126 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,321 | 146 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,192 | 169 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,209 | 164 | |
| 2021 | — | #885 | 261 | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #910 | 245 |
| 2019 | — | #868 | 254 | |
| 2018 | — | #837 | 266 | |
| 2017 | — | #785 | 299 | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #732 | 334 |
| 2015 | — | #656 | 394 | |
| 2014 | — | #589 | 468 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #485 | 569 |
| 2012 | — | #522 | 503 | |
| 2011 | — | #485 | 543 | |
| 2010 | — | #474 | 548 | |
| 2009 | — | #444 | 630 | |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #422 | 691 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #622 | 395 |
| 2006 | — | #915 | 210 | |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #892 | 202 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #824 | 216 |
| 2003 | — | #760 | 233 | |
| 2002 | — | #770 | 224 | |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #734 | 237 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #824 | 194 |
| 1999 | — | #863 | 175 | |
| 1998 | — | #764 | 209 | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #951 | 141 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #868 | 159 |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | #887 | 152 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #822 | 167 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #757 | 190 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 | #728 | 201 |
| 1991 | — | #853 | 150 | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #907 | 129 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #940 | 117 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #916 | 108 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #990 | 92 |
| 1986 | — | #954 | 92 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,020 | 80 | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #1,060 | 71 |
| 1983 | — | #916 | 93 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,654 | 36 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,479 | 42 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,808 | 31 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,464 | 41 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,508 | 38 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,556 | 17 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,054 | 23 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,948 | 24 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,277 | 18 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,622 | 8 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,836 | 7 | |
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| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
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| 1959 | — | #2,821 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jacoby! It came in at #2,821, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1960, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Jacoby is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Mexico#390 · 1 in 1,620
- Oklahoma#402 · 1 in 1,758
- Massachusetts#407 · 1 in 2,620
- Mississippi#409 · 1 in 1,905
- Connecticut#462 · 1 in 2,809
Best ever in a state: #68 in New Hampshire, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | #390 | 5 | 1 in 1,620 |
| Oklahoma | #402 | 11 | 1 in 1,758 |
| Massachusetts | #407 | 11 | 1 in 2,620 |
| Mississippi | #409 | 7 | 1 in 1,905 |
| Connecticut | #462 | 5 | 1 in 2,809 |
| Oregon | #512 | 7 | 1 in 2,482 |
| Ohio | #544 | 17 | 1 in 3,433 |
| Indiana | #550 | 11 | 1 in 3,132 |
| Michigan | #556 | 14 | 1 in 3,316 |
| Tennessee | #585 | 10 | 1 in 3,627 |
| Illinois | #596 | 17 | 1 in 3,643 |
| North Carolina | #603 | 13 | 1 in 3,948 |
| Utah | #670 | 5 | 1 in 4,065 |
| South Carolina | #671 | 5 | 1 in 4,200 |
| Florida | #707 | 19 | 1 in 5,088 |
| Arizona | #713 | 7 | 1 in 4,947 |
| Texas | #761 | 30 | 1 in 5,872 |
| Virginia | #793 | 7 | 1 in 5,822 |
| Louisiana | #795 | 5 | 1 in 4,771 |
| Pennsylvania | #856 | 8 | 1 in 7,276 |
| Washington | #858 | 6 | 1 in 5,926 |
| Georgia | #1,093 | 6 | 1 in 8,948 |
| California | #1,126 | 18 | 1 in 11,984 |
| New York | #1,188 | 9 | 1 in 10,839 |
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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 Jacoby
- 104 spots since 2024 (#1,321 → #1,425)
- 515 spots since 2020 (#910 → #1,425)
- 769 spots since 2015 (#656 → #1,425)
- Biggest jump: 738 spots in 1983 (#1,654 → #916)
- Biggest drop: 324 spots in 2022 (#885 → #1,209)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2008 at #422 (691 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 37 yrs · run 1986–2021
- Highest: 1 in 2,952 boys born in 2008 were named Jacoby (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,556 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 37.4% of all boys named Jacoby (4,178) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 9 | #2,821 (1959) | #2,821 |
| 1960s | 7 | #3,356 (1961) | #3,356 |
| 1970s | 189 | #1,464 (1979) | #2,769 |
| 1980s | 762 | #916 (1988) | #1,174 |
| 1990s | 1,673 | #728 (1992) | #840 |
| 2000s | 3,232 | #422 (2008) | #721 |
| 2010s | 4,178 | #474 (2010) | #643 |
| 2020s | 1,111 | #885 (2021) | #1,157 |
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.
Jacoby in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 6,190 of them was named Jacoby, which outranked 94.5% 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).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.