Jaycob
Jaycob was given to 81 boys in 2025, #1,926 among boys’ names; 4,519 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,450 Americans named Jaycob and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaycob by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jaycob mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jaycob is “a male given name.”
Modern variant of Jacob.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jaycob?
#1,926 among boys’ names, 2025
Jaycob fell from #1,065 in 2015 to #1,926 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 97.0 to 47.4 per million.
236 babies in 2012, the peak
Jaycob peaked in 2012, when 236 boys were given it, #888 among boys’ names. The 81 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 81 | #1,926 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,404 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 68 | #2,137 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 82 | #1,912 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 96 | #1,703 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 104 | #1,569 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 117 | #1,473 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 166 | #1,155 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 142 | #1,280 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 167 | #1,151 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 186 | #1,065 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 223 | #950 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 211 | #946 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 236 | #888 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 211 | #942 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 234 | #889 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 206 | #971 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 158 | #1,150 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 165 | #1,108 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 145 | #1,164 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 127 | #1,246 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 149 | #1,072 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 127 | #1,178 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 112 | #1,224 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 122 | #1,138 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 120 | #1,154 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 97 | #1,267 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 81 | #1,410 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 94 | #1,232 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 76 | #1,391 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 62 | #1,531 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 59 | #1,564 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 46 | #1,830 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 39 | #2,014 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 34 | #2,163 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 25 | #2,650 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 19 | #3,140 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,023 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,471 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,334 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,889 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,738 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,995 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,790 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,499 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaycob a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaycob has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jaycob: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaycob, and how old are they?
4,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,519 Americans ever recorded as Jaycob. The median Jaycob alive today is 16 years old; half are between 11 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 3,203 people named Jaycob (9 women and girls, 3,194 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,010 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 416 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,350 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,690 |
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 Jaycob born?
The states with the most babies named Jaycob are Texas, New York and Florida, with 83% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 13 | #1,441 | 1.1× |
| New York | 10 | #1,164 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,718 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #973 | 1.0× |
Where Jaycob is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaycob is most over-represented in California: since 1981 it was given 1.4 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 Jaycob 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 1,029,369 babies since 1880, Jaycob is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 81 of their 6,373 babies (1.3%), 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 Jaycob
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 Jaycob and names like it
- Compare Jaycob and JacobBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJaycob peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaycob since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Jaycob.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaycob alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.