Jakobie
Jakobie was given to 19 boys in 2025, #5,106 among boys’ names; 619 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jakobie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jakobie?
#5,106 among boys’ names, 2025
Jakobie rose from #6,839 in 2015 to #5,106 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.3 to 11.1 per million.
41 babies in 2009, the peak
Jakobie peaked in 2009, when 41 boys were given it, #2,921 among boys’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #5,106 | 11.1 |
| 2024 | 29 | #3,836 | 16.8 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,521 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 25 | #4,220 | 14.3 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,857 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,104 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,393 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,153 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,181 | 9.7 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,208 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #6,839 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 31 | #3,495 | 16.1 |
| 2013 | 25 | #4,002 | 13.2 |
| 2012 | 27 | #3,831 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,065 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 31 | #3,486 | 16.2 |
| 2009 | 41 | #2,921 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 32 | #3,446 | 15.7 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,556 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,417 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,684 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 27 | #3,486 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 30 | #3,146 | 15.2 |
| 2002 | 21 | #3,956 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,768 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,664 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,624 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,990 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,614 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jakobie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jakobie has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jakobie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jakobie, and how old are they?
An estimated 612 Americans named Jakobie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 415 people named Jakobie (16 women and girls, 399 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 496 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Jakobie?
Jakobie is a less common spelling of Jacoby: SSA has recorded 619 Jakobie and 11,281 Jacoby since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 27,898 babies since 1880, Jakobie is the eighth most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 463 babies (4.1%), the sixth 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 Jakobie
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 Jakobie and names like it
- Compare Jakobie and JacobyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJakobie peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jakobie since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Jakobie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jakobie alive today were born 1997-2012.
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