Jaccob
Jaccob was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 629 Americans have been recorded with it between 1981 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaccob by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaccob?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,835, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1994, the peak
Jaccob peaked in 1994, when 35 boys were given it, #2,271 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #12,835 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,209 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,133 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,412 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,489 | 6.9 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,829 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,802 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,389 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,769 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,780 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 13 | #6,492 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,487 | 11.1 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,328 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,171 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,755 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,391 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,679 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,669 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 15 | #4,995 | 7.7 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,172 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,458 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 33 | #2,634 | 17.2 |
| 1998 | 27 | #2,958 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,794 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 34 | #2,348 | 17.9 |
| 1995 | 26 | #2,791 | 13.7 |
| 1994 | 35 | #2,271 | 18.1 |
| 1993 | 31 | #2,416 | 15.8 |
| 1992 | 26 | #2,698 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,157 | 9.9 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,137 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,961 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,568 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,148 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,573 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,392 | 3.8 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,155 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaccob a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaccob has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jaccob: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaccob, and how old are they?
An estimated 613 Americans named Jaccob and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 18 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 561 people named Jaccob (0 women and girls, 561 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 614 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Jaccob?
Jaccob is a less common spelling of Jacob: SSA has recorded 629 Jaccob and 990,532 Jacob since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,029,369 babies since 1880, Jaccob is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 6,373 babies recorded by SSA was a Jaccob (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jaccob
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jaccob and names like it
- Compare Jaccob and JacobBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJaccob peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaccob since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Jaccob.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaccob alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.