Jacobi
Jacobi was given to 60 boys in 2025, #2,318 among boys’ names; 4,501 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,420 Americans named Jacobi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jacobi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jacobi?
#2,318 among boys’ names, 2025
Jacobi fell from #1,304 in 2015 to #2,318 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 71.0 to 35.1 per million.
201 babies in 2008, the peak
Jacobi peaked in 2008, when 201 babies were given it (189 boys, #1,017 among boys’ names). The 60 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,318 | 35.1 |
| 2024 | 90 | #1,811 | 52.2 |
| 2023 | 95 | #1,739 | 55.5 |
| 2022 | 87 | #1,843 | 49.8 |
| 2021 | 117 | #1,517 | 66.9 |
| 2020 | 122 | #1,419 | 70.7 |
| 2019 | 122 | #1,433 | 68.0 |
| 2018 | 132 | #1,353 | 72.7 |
| 2017 | 122 | #1,426 | 65.9 |
| 2016 | 140 | #1,300 | 73.8 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 136 | #1,304 | 71.0 |
| 2014 | 148 | #1,231 | 77.0 |
| 2013 | 144 | #1,235 | 76.1 |
| 2012 | 143 | #1,238 | 75.4 |
| 2011 | 163 | #1,122 | 85.8 |
| 2010 | 170 | #1,115 | 88.6 |
| 2009 | 184 | #1,040 | 92.8 |
| 2008 | 189 | #1,017 | 92.6 |
| 2007 | 148 | #1,190 | 71.3 |
| 2006 | 124 | #1,327 | 60.3 |
| 2005 | 103 | #1,435 | 51.6 |
| 2004 | 108 | #1,347 | 54.4 |
| 2003 | 121 | #1,210 | 61.3 |
| 2002 | 125 | #1,141 | 64.4 |
| 2001 | 107 | #1,244 | 55.1 |
| 2000 | 94 | #1,353 | 47.9 |
| 1999 | 84 | #1,397 | 43.7 |
| 1998 | 89 | #1,342 | 46.6 |
| 1997 | 64 | #1,584 | 33.9 |
| 1996 | 59 | #1,642 | 31.1 |
| 1995 | 52 | #1,713 | 27.3 |
| 1994 | 47 | #1,832 | 24.3 |
| 1993 | 54 | #1,642 | 27.5 |
| 1992 | 90 | #1,167 | 45.1 |
| 1991 | 35 | #2,105 | 17.3 |
| 1990 | 33 | #2,184 | 16.1 |
| 1989 | 25 | #2,564 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 30 | #2,100 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,421 | 12.3 |
| 1986 | 25 | #2,250 | 13.6 |
| 1985 | 24 | #2,248 | 13.0 |
| 1984 | 21 | #2,390 | 11.6 |
| 1983 | 29 | #1,876 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 29 | #1,912 | 16.0 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,301 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 15 | #3,008 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,665 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,846 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 14 | #2,969 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,213 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,828 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,545 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,853 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jacobi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,501 Americans recorded as Jacobi, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 60 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jacobi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jacobi, and how old are they?
4,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,501 Americans ever recorded as Jacobi. The median Jacobi alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 3,226 people named Jacobi (288 women and girls, 2,938 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,898 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 72 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 680 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,540 |
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 Jacobi born?
The states with the most babies named Jacobi are Georgia, Florida and Illinois, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 8 | #1,031 | 2.2× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,709 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,370 | 1.1× |
Where Jacobi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jacobi is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1973 it was given 2.2 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 Jacobi 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, Jacobi is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 60 of their 521 babies (12%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Jacobi
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 Jacobi and names like it
- Compare Jacobi and JacobyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJacobi peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jacobi since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Jacobi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jacobi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.