Jaycob

Where Jaycob comes from

Modern variant of Jacob.
— Wiktionary's entry for Jaycob
Along the way
  1. 1981
    First appearance
    #3,412 among boys, 12 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2012
    Peak, #888
    236 babies named Jaycob — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2019
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,472.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes

No widely known Jaycob turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.