Jakobe
Jakobe was given to 122 boys in 2025, #1,461 among boys’ names; 4,883 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,830 Americans named Jakobe and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jakobe by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jakobe?
#1,461 among boys’ names, 2025
Jakobe fell from #1,163 in 2015 to #1,461 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 83.5 to 71.4 per million.
273 babies in 2020, the peak
Jakobe peaked in 2020, when 273 boys were given it, #836 among boys’ names. The 122 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 122 | #1,461 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 150 | #1,305 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 180 | #1,159 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 201 | #1,086 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 239 | #947 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 273 | #836 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 130 | #1,375 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 148 | #1,247 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 148 | #1,241 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 174 | #1,122 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 160 | #1,163 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 201 | #1,017 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 204 | #983 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 161 | #1,137 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 215 | #928 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 212 | #947 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 209 | #963 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 218 | #933 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 167 | #1,092 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 143 | #1,181 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 129 | #1,229 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 210 | #845 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 214 | #817 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 195 | #850 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 172 | #909 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 136 | #1,053 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 78 | #1,470 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 76 | #1,465 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,818 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,743 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jakobe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jakobe has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jakobe: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jakobe, and how old are they?
4,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,883 Americans ever recorded as Jakobe. The median Jakobe alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 2,851 people named Jakobe (19 women and girls, 2,832 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,751 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 | 8 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,510 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,310 |
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 Jakobe born?
The states with the most babies named Jakobe are North Carolina, Georgia and Florida, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 13 | #700 | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 11 | #817 | 2.3× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,296 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 8 | #1,981 | 1.0× |
| South Carolina | 7 | #631 | 2.0× |
| Indiana | 6 | #896 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,372 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,093 | 1.9× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,179 | 1.1× |
| California | 5 | #2,607 | 0.2× |
Where Jakobe is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jakobe is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1996 it was given 5.0 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 Jakobe 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, Jakobe is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 122 of their 521 babies (23%), again the second 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 Jakobe
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 Jakobe and names like it
- Compare Jakobe and JacobyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJakobe peaked in 2020.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jakobe since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Jakobe.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jakobe alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.