Jacoby
Jacoby was given to 126 boys in 2025, #1,430 among boys’ names; 11,281 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,100 Americans named Jacoby and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jacoby by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jacoby mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jacoby is “a male given name.”
/dʒəˈkoʊbi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jacoby?
#1,430 among boys’ names, 2025
Jacoby fell from #656 in 2015 to #1,430 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.21 to 0.07 per 1,000.
696 babies in 2008, the peak
Jacoby peaked in 2008, when 696 babies were given it (691 boys, #422 among boys’ names). The 126 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 126 | #1,430 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 146 | #1,322 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 169 | #1,195 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 164 | #1,210 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 261 | #885 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 245 | #911 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 254 | #870 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 266 | #838 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 299 | #785 | 0.16 |
| 2016 | 334 | #732 | 0.18 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 394 | #656 | 0.21 |
| 2014 | 468 | #589 | 0.24 |
| 2013 | 569 | #485 | 0.30 |
| 2012 | 503 | #522 | 0.27 |
| 2011 | 543 | #485 | 0.29 |
| 2010 | 548 | #474 | 0.29 |
| 2009 | 630 | #444 | 0.32 |
| 2008 | 691 | #422 | 0.34 |
| 2007 | 395 | #622 | 0.19 |
| 2006 | 210 | #915 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 202 | #892 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 216 | #825 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 233 | #759 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 224 | #770 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 237 | #735 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 194 | #823 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 175 | #863 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 209 | #764 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 141 | #953 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 159 | #866 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 152 | #887 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 167 | #823 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 190 | #756 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 201 | #728 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 150 | #850 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 129 | #904 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 117 | #939 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 108 | #917 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 92 | #993 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 92 | #955 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 80 | #1,023 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 71 | #1,060 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 93 | #919 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 36 | #1,661 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 42 | #1,484 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 31 | #1,830 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 41 | #1,475 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 38 | #1,516 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,597 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 23 | #2,080 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 24 | #1,971 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,311 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,256 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,773 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,625 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,014 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,499 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,923 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jacoby a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 11,281 Americans recorded as Jacoby, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 126 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 Jacoby: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jacoby, and how old are they?
11,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 11,281 Americans ever recorded as Jacoby. The median Jacoby alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 8,736 people named Jacoby (154 women and girls, 8,582 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,075 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 200 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,850 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,680 |
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 Jacoby born?
The states with the most babies named Jacoby are Tennessee, Texas and Florida, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 10 | #691 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 9 | #1,814 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,396 | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 7 | #621 | 4.2× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,074 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,077 | 0.9× |
Where Jacoby is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jacoby is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1959 it was given 4.2 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 Jacoby 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, Jacoby is the most given (37% of them). In 2025 it was given to 126 of their 521 babies (24%), again the 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 Jacoby
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 Jacoby and names like it
- Compare Jacoby and JakobeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJacoby peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jacoby since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Jacoby.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jacoby alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.