Jakobe
#1,459 for boys in 2025, 122 births
- Peak · boys
- 2003 · 214 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,883since 1996
Jakobe over time
Rank among boys' names. Jakobe has never cracked the top 800 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 | #1,459 | 122 |
| 2024 | #1,303 | 150 |
| 2023 | #1,156 | 180 |
| 2022 | #1,084 | 201 |
| 2021 | #947 | 239 |
| 2020 | #833 | 273 |
| 2019 | #1,372 | 130 |
| 2018 | #1,244 | 148 |
| 2017 | #1,236 | 148 |
| 2016 | #1,121 | 174 |
| 2015 | #1,162 | 160 |
| 2014 | #1,014 | 201 |
| 2013 | #981 | 204 |
| 2012 | #1,135 | 161 |
| 2011 | #928 | 215 |
| 2010 | #946 | 212 |
| 2009 | #962 | 209 |
| 2008 | #932 | 218 |
| 2007 | #1,092 | 167 |
| 2006 | #1,178 | 143 |
| 2005 | #1,225 | 129 |
| 2004 | #846 | 210 |
| 2003 | #816 | 214 |
| 2002 | #848 | 195 |
| 2001 | #908 | 172 |
| 2000 | #1,053 | 136 |
| 1999 | #1,471 | 78 |
| 1998 | #1,465 | 76 |
| 1997 | #5,642 | 10 |
| 1996 | #6,496 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jakobe! It came in at #6,496, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1996–1997, when fewer than 11 boys a year got the name.
Where Jakobe is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#240 · 1 in 1,146
- Alabama#243 · 1 in 1,208
- Idaho#348 · 1 in 1,461
- Arkansas#377 · 1 in 1,878
- South Carolina#521 · 1 in 3,100
Best ever in a state: #170 in Mississippi, 2004.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #240 | 13 | 1 in 1,146 |
| Alabama | #243 | 20 | 1 in 1,208 |
| Idaho | #348 | 6 | 1 in 1,461 |
| Arkansas | #377 | 8 | 1 in 1,878 |
| South Carolina | #521 | 7 | 1 in 3,100 |
| Kentucky | #533 | 6 | 1 in 3,905 |
| Georgia | #534 | 18 | 1 in 3,279 |
| Oklahoma | #584 | 6 | 1 in 3,576 |
| Tennessee | #587 | 9 | 1 in 4,036 |
| Louisiana | #610 | 7 | 1 in 3,577 |
| Michigan | #700 | 9 | 1 in 5,484 |
| North Carolina | #759 | 9 | 1 in 5,982 |
| Texas | #830 | 25 | 1 in 7,458 |
| Illinois | #1,089 | 7 | 1 in 10,364 |
| Florida | #1,302 | 7 | 1 in 13,614 |
| California | #1,715 | 9 | 1 in 26,905 |
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See more about Jakobe
- 156 spots since 2024 (#1,303 → #1,459)
- 626 spots since 2020 (#833 → #1,459)
- 297 spots since 2015 (#1,162 → #1,459)
- Biggest jump: 539 spots in 2020 (#1,372 → #833)
- Biggest drop: 379 spots in 2005 (#846 → #1,225)
- Debuted 1996
- Peaked 2003 at #816 (214 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2001–2004
- Highest: 1 in 6,323 boys born in 2020 were named Jakobe (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,001 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #816 in 2003, was only 1 in 9,231 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 36.7% of all boys named Jakobe (1,793) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 172 | #1,465 (1998) | #3,769 |
| 2000s | 1,793 | #816 (2003) | #986 |
| 2010s | 1,753 | #928 (2011) | #1,114 |
| 2020s | 1,165 | #833 (2020) | #1,130 |
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.
Jakobe in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 9,491 of them was named Jakobe, which outranked 93.4% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).