Jakoby
Jakoby was given to 27 boys in 2025, #3,985 among boys’ names; 1,703 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,680 Americans named Jakoby and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jakoby by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jakoby?
#3,985 among boys’ names, 2025
Jakoby fell from #1,990 in 2015 to #3,985 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 38.1 to 15.8 per million.
118 babies in 2018, the peak
Jakoby peaked in 2018, when 118 boys were given it, #1,472 among boys’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #3,985 | 15.8 |
| 2024 | 32 | #3,556 | 18.6 |
| 2023 | 42 | #2,972 | 24.6 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,420 | 33.2 |
| 2021 | 46 | #2,749 | 26.3 |
| 2020 | 79 | #1,882 | 45.8 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,274 | 34.0 |
| 2018 | 118 | #1,472 | 65.0 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,252 | 31.9 |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,177 | 33.2 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 73 | #1,990 | 38.1 |
| 2014 | 81 | #1,834 | 42.2 |
| 2013 | 101 | #1,560 | 53.4 |
| 2012 | 74 | #1,927 | 39.0 |
| 2011 | 92 | #1,649 | 48.4 |
| 2010 | 87 | #1,745 | 45.3 |
| 2009 | 90 | #1,725 | 45.4 |
| 2008 | 103 | #1,557 | 50.5 |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,222 | 28.9 |
| 2006 | 39 | #2,899 | 19.0 |
| 2005 | 35 | #2,974 | 17.5 |
| 2004 | 30 | #3,241 | 15.1 |
| 2003 | 41 | #2,521 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 45 | #2,312 | 23.2 |
| 2001 | 36 | #2,644 | 18.5 |
| 2000 | 38 | #2,495 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,217 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 27 | #2,960 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,819 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,454 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,625 | 4.2 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,132 | 3.6 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,690 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jakoby a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jakoby has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jakoby: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jakoby, and how old are they?
1,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,703 Americans ever recorded as Jakoby. The median Jakoby alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,168 people named Jakoby (21 women and girls, 1,147 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,426 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 | 30 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 820 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 834 |
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 Jakoby born?
The states with the most babies named Jakoby are Texas, Florida and Ohio, with 54% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 179 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 26 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 22 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 20 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Oklahoma | 20 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Jakoby 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 Jakoby?
Jakoby is a less common spelling of Jacoby: SSA has recorded 1,703 Jakoby and 11,281 Jacoby since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 30,468 babies since 1880, Jakoby is the sixth most given (5.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 540 babies (5.0%), again the sixth 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 Jakoby
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 Jakoby and names like it
- Compare Jakoby and JacobyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJakoby peaked in 2018.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jakoby since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Jakoby.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jakoby alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.