US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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Jakob name popularity

Jakob has been given to 31,959 babies in the United States since 1957.

It peaked in 2001, when 2,192 babies got the name, and its best rank was #323 in 2001.

In 2025, 135 babies were named Jakob (#2,881 in the country), 94% below the peak. That is down 75% from 2015.

Almost every Jakob is a boy.

An estimated 32K people named Jakob are alive in the US today, with a median age of 23.

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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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