Jakub
Jakub was given to 36 boys in 2025, #3,270 among boys’ names; 3,067 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,020 Americans named Jakub and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jakub by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jakub mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Jakub is “a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English James or Jacob” Its etymology gives the senses “Jacob” (ya‘ăqṓḇ,) and “he will/shall heel” (literally) and “heel of the foot” (עָקֵב).
Inherited from Old Polish Jakób, from Latin Iacōbus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (ya‘ăqṓḇ, “Jacob”, literally “he will/shall heel”), from עָקֵב (‘āqḗḇ, “heel of the foot”). Doublet of jacuzzi.
/ˈja.kup/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jakub?
#3,270 among boys’ names, 2025
Jakub fell from #1,696 in 2015 to #3,270 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 48.0 to 21.1 per million.
184 babies in 2008, the peak
Jakub peaked in 2008, when 184 boys were given it, #1,035 among boys’ names. The 36 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,270 | 21.1 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,130 | 22.6 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,143 | 22.8 |
| 2022 | 49 | #2,687 | 28.1 |
| 2021 | 55 | #2,448 | 31.4 |
| 2020 | 47 | #2,671 | 27.2 |
| 2019 | 44 | #2,825 | 24.5 |
| 2018 | 59 | #2,292 | 32.5 |
| 2017 | 76 | #1,904 | 41.1 |
| 2016 | 79 | #1,883 | 41.6 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 92 | #1,696 | 48.0 |
| 2014 | 95 | #1,635 | 49.5 |
| 2013 | 97 | #1,595 | 51.3 |
| 2012 | 106 | #1,518 | 55.9 |
| 2011 | 106 | #1,513 | 55.8 |
| 2010 | 147 | #1,211 | 76.6 |
| 2009 | 145 | #1,236 | 73.1 |
| 2008 | 184 | #1,035 | 90.2 |
| 2007 | 174 | #1,072 | 83.8 |
| 2006 | 168 | #1,068 | 81.7 |
| 2005 | 136 | #1,174 | 68.1 |
| 2004 | 151 | #1,062 | 76.1 |
| 2003 | 122 | #1,206 | 61.8 |
| 2002 | 125 | #1,142 | 64.4 |
| 2001 | 121 | #1,147 | 62.3 |
| 2000 | 77 | #1,554 | 39.2 |
| 1999 | 73 | #1,533 | 38.0 |
| 1998 | 88 | #1,350 | 46.0 |
| 1997 | 67 | #1,538 | 35.5 |
| 1996 | 51 | #1,793 | 26.9 |
| 1995 | 47 | #1,845 | 24.7 |
| 1994 | 44 | #1,903 | 22.8 |
| 1993 | 35 | #2,226 | 17.8 |
| 1992 | 32 | #2,323 | 16.0 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,900 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,059 | 6.8 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,571 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,427 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,054 | 4.3 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,141 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,692 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jakub a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jakub has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jakub: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jakub, and how old are they?
3,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,067 Americans ever recorded as Jakub. The median Jakub alive today is 19 years old; half are between 13 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 3,795 people named Jakub (5 women and girls, 3,790 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,781 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 259 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,960 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 801 |
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 Jakub born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 9 | #899 | 7.3× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #969 | 2.6× |
Where Jakub is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jakub is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1981 it was given 7.3 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 Jakub 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 1,028,335 babies since 1880, Jakub is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 6,328 babies (<1%), again the third 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 Jakub
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 Jakub and names like it
- Compare Jakub and JacobBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJakub peaked in 2008.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jakub since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Jakub: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Jakub.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jakub alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.