Jakeb
Jakeb was last recorded in 2017, when 5 babies were given it; 1,170 Americans have been recorded with it between 1982 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,140 Americans named Jakeb and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 20 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jakeb by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jakeb?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,078, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
74 babies in 1999, the peak
Jakeb peaked in 1999, when 74 boys were given it, #1,520 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | #13,078 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,162 | 7.4 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,082 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,806 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,049 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,119 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,935 | 13.7 |
| 2010 | 27 | #3,854 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 41 | #2,920 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 39 | #3,029 | 19.1 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 51 | #2,487 | 24.6 |
| 2006 | 39 | #2,898 | 19.0 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,216 | 27.0 |
| 2004 | 49 | #2,323 | 24.7 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,135 | 26.3 |
| 2002 | 47 | #2,227 | 24.2 |
| 2001 | 69 | #1,684 | 35.5 |
| 2000 | 64 | #1,745 | 32.6 |
| 1999 | 74 | #1,520 | 38.5 |
| 1998 | 66 | #1,586 | 34.5 |
| 1997 | 54 | #1,775 | 28.6 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,084 | 21.6 |
| 1995 | 44 | #1,932 | 23.1 |
| 1994 | 37 | #2,192 | 19.2 |
| 1993 | 41 | #1,973 | 20.9 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,486 | 14.5 |
| 1991 | 29 | #2,425 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,895 | 10.7 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,820 | 11.0 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,418 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,590 | 11.2 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,261 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,901 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 10 | #4,035 | 5.5 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,685 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,954 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jakeb a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jakeb has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jakeb: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jakeb, and how old are they?
1,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,170 Americans ever recorded as Jakeb. The median Jakeb alive today is 26 years old; half are between 20 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 962 people named Jakeb (0 women and girls, 962 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,150 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 328 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 756 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 57 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,028,335 babies since 1880, Jakeb is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 6,328 babies recorded by SSA was a Jakeb (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 Jakeb
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1980-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Zacary | 1,137 | |
| Marcoantonio | 1,521 | |
| Marcanthony | 1,399 | |
| Brenden | 25,757 | |
| Keonte | 1,578 | |
| Zakary | 5,613 |
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 Jakeb and names like it
- Compare Jakeb and JacobBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJakeb peaked in 1999.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jakeb since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Jakeb.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jakeb alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.