Jacobb
Jacobb was last recorded in 2012, when 7 babies were given it; 245 Americans have been recorded with it between 1987 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jacobb by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jacobb?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,132, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1995, the peak
Jacobb peaked in 1995, when 18 boys were given it, #3,609 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7 | #10,132 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,392 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,804 | 5.2 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,312 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,807 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,984 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,609 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,283 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,011 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,254 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 13 | #5,483 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,045 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,866 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,003 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,290 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,079 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,609 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,909 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,821 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,016 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,253 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,524 | 2.9 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,954 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,424 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jacobb a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jacobb has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jacobb: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jacobb, and how old are they?
An estimated 239 Americans named Jacobb and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 22 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 231 people named Jacobb (3 women and girls, 228 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 241 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% 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 Jacobb?
Jacobb is a less common spelling of Jacob: SSA has recorded 245 Jacobb and 990,532 Jacob since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,028,378 babies since 1880, Jacobb is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 6,368 babies recorded by SSA was a Jacobb (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 Jacobb
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 Jacobb and names like it
- Compare Jacobb and JacobBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJacobb peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jacobb since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Jacobb.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jacobb alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.