Jacobi — #1819 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jacobi

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,134 babies named Jacobi between 1973 and 2024, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jacobi currently holds the #1819 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 189 babies received it in a single year. Jacobi is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 306 additional births since 1982.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jacobi performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,420 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Jacobi shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 409 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Jacobi in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jacobi in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,134 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.