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NAMES LIKE JACOB
Same rise and fall as Jacob, around the same years.
WHERE JACOB IS POPULAR · 2024
In 2024, Jacob ranked highest in New York (#16) and lowest in Montana (#271).
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MARKET MOVERS · 10 YEARS
Jacob name popularity
Jacob has been given to 990,532 babies in the United States since 1880.
It peaked in 1998, when 36,091 babies got the name, and its best rank was #1 in 1999.
In 2025, 6,152 babies were named Jacob (#72 in the country), 83% below the peak. That is down 62% from 2015.
Almost every Jacob is a boy.
An estimated 939K people named Jacob are alive in the US today, with a median age of 26.
It was a top-100 name in 48 of the 146 years on record.
HOW IT WORKS
The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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