Jakob
- #1,370 for boys in 2025, 135 births
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 2,192 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 31,959since 1957
Jakob over time
Rank among boys' names. Jakob has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,370 | 135 |
| 2024 | #1,119 | 191 |
| 2023 | #1,118 | 189 |
| 2022 | #991 | 227 |
| 2021 | #845 | 281 |
| 2020 | #882 | 256 |
| 2019 | #759 | 312 |
| 2018 | #703 | 344 |
| 2017 | #638 | 404 |
| 2016 | #581 | 476 |
| 2015 | #525 | 548 |
| 2014 | #458 | 645 |
| 2013 | #415 | 711 |
| 2012 | #395 | 742 |
| 2011 | #334 | 910 |
| 2010 | #298 | 1,097 |
| 2009 | #324 | 989 |
| 2008 | #308 | 1,083 |
| 2007 | #303 | 1,108 |
| 2006 | #293 | 1,158 |
| 2005 | #275 | 1,215 |
| 2004 | #235 | 1,416 |
| 2003 | #218 | 1,607 |
| 2002 | #203 | 1,836 |
| 2001 | #172 | 2,192 |
| 2000 | #173 | 2,161 |
| 1999 | #200 | 1,693 |
| 1998 | #191 | 1,784 |
| 1997 | #220 | 1,387 |
| 1996 | #382 | 611 |
| 1995 | #407 | 561 |
| 1994 | #430 | 530 |
| 1993 | #449 | 487 |
| 1992 | #482 | 436 |
| 1991 | #521 | 368 |
| 1990 | #578 | 306 |
| 1989 | #632 | 249 |
| 1988 | #699 | 179 |
| 1987 | #751 | 148 |
| 1986 | #751 | 146 |
| 1985 | #998 | 83 |
| 1984 | #968 | 84 |
| 1983 | #936 | 89 |
| 1982 | #1,023 | 78 |
| 1981 | #1,014 | 80 |
| 1980 | #1,022 | 78 |
| 1979 | #1,137 | 62 |
| 1978 | #1,352 | 46 |
| 1977 | #1,268 | 49 |
| 1976 | #1,828 | 27 |
| 1975 | #1,593 | 32 |
| 1974 | #1,747 | 27 |
| 1973 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #2,243 | 17 |
| 1971 | #2,973 | 11 |
| 1970 | #4,230 | 6 |
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| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #2,760 | 9 |
| 1966 | #3,948 | 5 |
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| 1964 | #3,601 | 6 |
| 1963 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | #3,640 | 6 |
| 1961 | #4,065 | 5 |
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| 1959 | #3,619 | 6 |
| 1958 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1957 | #3,257 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jakob! It came in at #3,257, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1961, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Jakob is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arkansas#555 · 1 in 2,517
- Colorado#849 · 1 in 5,370
- Pennsylvania#1,004 · 1 in 7,466
- California#1,150 · 1 in 10,322
- Florida#1,256 · 1 in 10,615
Best ever in a state: #80 in New Hampshire, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Arkansas | #555 | 5 | 1 in 2,517 |
| Colorado | #849 | 5 | 1 in 5,370 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,004 | 7 | 1 in 7,466 |
| California | #1,150 | 17 | 1 in 10,322 |
| Florida | #1,256 | 9 | 1 in 10,615 |
| New York | #1,297 | 8 | 1 in 10,553 |
| Texas | #1,760 | 9 | 1 in 19,450 |
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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 Jakob
- 488 spots since 2020 (#882 → #1,370)
- Biggest jump: 247 spots in 1986
- Biggest drop: 146 spots in 2022
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 2001 at #172 (2,192 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 40 yrs · run 1983–2022
- Highest: 1 in 886 boys born in 2001 were named Jakob (0.11%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,652 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 46.2% of all boys named Jakob (14,765) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 19 | #3,257 (1957) | #3,478 |
| 1960s | 42 | #2,760 (1967) | #3,676 |
| 1970s | 288 | #1,137 (1979) | #2,138 |
| 1980s | 1,214 | #632 (1989) | #879 |
| 1990s | 8,163 | #191 (1998) | #386 |
| 2000s | 14,765 | #172 (2001) | #250 |
| 2010s | 6,189 | #298 (2010) | #511 |
| 2020s | 1,279 | #845 (2021) | #1,054 |
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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