Jacobe
Jacobe was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,231 among boys’ names; 1,300 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,270 Americans named Jacobe and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 17 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jacobe by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jacobe?
#9,231 among boys’ names, 2025
Jacobe fell from #5,147 in 2015 to #9,231 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.4 to 4.7 per million.
59 babies in 2007, the peak
Jacobe peaked in 2007, when 59 boys were given it, #2,245 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,231 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,597 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,252 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,981 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,293 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,098 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,868 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,151 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,904 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,205 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,147 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 26 | #3,943 | 13.5 |
| 2013 | 33 | #3,290 | 17.4 |
| 2012 | 35 | #3,194 | 18.5 |
| 2011 | 39 | #2,965 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 34 | #3,265 | 17.7 |
| 2009 | 44 | #2,777 | 22.2 |
| 2008 | 48 | #2,603 | 23.5 |
| 2007 | 59 | #2,245 | 28.4 |
| 2006 | 54 | #2,329 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 45 | #2,501 | 22.5 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,170 | 27.2 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,035 | 28.3 |
| 2002 | 45 | #2,311 | 23.2 |
| 2001 | 47 | #2,191 | 24.2 |
| 2000 | 53 | #1,947 | 27.0 |
| 1999 | 44 | #2,145 | 22.9 |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,047 | 24.1 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,143 | 21.7 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,147 | 12.1 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,477 | 10.0 |
| 1994 | 26 | #2,798 | 13.5 |
| 1993 | 30 | #2,470 | 15.3 |
| 1992 | 35 | #2,188 | 17.5 |
| 1991 | 19 | #3,254 | 9.4 |
| 1990 | 31 | #2,274 | 15.1 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,693 | 7.5 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,590 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,878 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 11 | #3,976 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,171 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 15 | #3,017 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,287 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,950 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,712 | 9.5 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,496 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,053 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,202 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,808 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,623 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,524 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,353 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jacobe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jacobe has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jacobe: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jacobe, and how old are they?
1,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,300 Americans ever recorded as Jacobe. The median Jacobe alive today is 23 years old; half are between 17 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,125 people named Jacobe (19 women and girls, 1,106 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,219 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 48 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 284 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 731 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 204 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Jacobe born?
The states with the most babies named Jacobe are Texas, Georgia and Louisiana, with 73% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 150 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 33 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 21 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 18 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 18 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Mississippi | 6 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Jacobe is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jacobe is most over-represented in Texas: since 1974 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jacobe with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 30,765 babies since 1880, Jacobe is the seventh most given (4.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 521 babies (1.5%), again the seventh most given.
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 Jacobe
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 Jacobe and names like it
- Compare Jacobe and JacobyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJacobe peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jacobe since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Jacobe.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jacobe alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.