Jakob
Jakob is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 190 births. Its best rank was 172nd, in 2001.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1900.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 20012,192 births
- Best rank
- #172in 2001
- Since 1957
- 31,821people given the name
The story in the numbers
31,821 boys have been named Jakob in the United States since 1957, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2001, with 2,192 births — 0.11% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 46%. It has spent 39 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2001, its biggest year
Jakob was the 172nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2001 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2001.
Names that rose and fell with Jakob
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jaquezpeak 2002
- Keshawnpeak 2000
- Latrellpeak 1999
- Treveonpeak 2000
- Andrupeak 2001
- Trevionpeak 2002
- Keshonpeak 2000
- Kobypeak 2000
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.