Jakobi
Jakobi was given to 101 boys in 2025, #1,657 among boys’ names; 2,695 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,670 Americans named Jakobi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jakobi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jakobi?
#1,657 among boys’ names, 2025
Jakobi fell from #1,606 in 2015 to #1,657 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 52.2 to 59.1 per million.
179 babies in 2022, the peak
Jakobi peaked in 2022, when 179 babies were given it (173 boys, #1,181 among boys’ names). The 101 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 101 | #1,657 | 59.1 |
| 2024 | 111 | #1,567 | 64.4 |
| 2023 | 140 | #1,352 | 81.8 |
| 2022 | 173 | #1,181 | 99.1 |
| 2021 | 153 | #1,248 | 87.5 |
| 2020 | 130 | #1,364 | 75.3 |
| 2019 | 130 | #1,376 | 72.5 |
| 2018 | 143 | #1,285 | 78.7 |
| 2017 | 115 | #1,472 | 62.1 |
| 2016 | 90 | #1,731 | 47.4 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 100 | #1,606 | 52.2 |
| 2014 | 84 | #1,786 | 43.7 |
| 2013 | 99 | #1,573 | 52.3 |
| 2012 | 92 | #1,671 | 48.5 |
| 2011 | 86 | #1,723 | 45.3 |
| 2010 | 93 | #1,671 | 48.5 |
| 2009 | 101 | #1,590 | 50.9 |
| 2008 | 112 | #1,472 | 54.9 |
| 2007 | 80 | #1,821 | 38.5 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,423 | 24.8 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,090 | 29.5 |
| 2004 | 51 | #2,259 | 25.7 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,062 | 27.8 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,027 | 27.8 |
| 2001 | 43 | #2,319 | 22.1 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,099 | 24.4 |
| 1999 | 38 | #2,370 | 19.8 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,134 | 22.5 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,654 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,896 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,290 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,663 | 9.3 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,517 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jakobi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,695 Americans recorded as Jakobi, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 101 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 Jakobi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jakobi, and how old are they?
2,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,695 Americans ever recorded as Jakobi. The median Jakobi alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,557 people named Jakobi (72 women and girls, 1,485 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,896 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 | 54 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,570 |
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 Jakobi born?
The states with the most babies named Jakobi are North Carolina, South Carolina and Ohio, with 62% of its births recorded by state in 2025; South Carolina is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 12 | #737 | 1.1× |
| South Carolina | 8 | #576 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,167 | 0.7× |
| California | 6 | #2,316 | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,427 | 1.6× |
| Alabama | 5 | #809 | 2.2× |
Where Jakobi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jakobi is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1993 it was given 1.6 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 Jakobi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Jakobi?
Jakobi is a less common spelling of Jacoby: SSA has recorded 2,695 Jakobi and 11,281 Jacoby since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 30,765 babies since 1880, Jakobi is the fifth most given (8.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 101 of their 521 babies (19%), the third 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 Jakobi
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 Jakobi and names like it
- Compare Jakobi and JacobyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJakobi peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jakobi since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Jakobi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jakobi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.