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Giacobbe

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Giacobbe has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 2008. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2013, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Giacobbe, 2013

1 in 608,000

Giacobbe over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Giacobbe: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Giacobbe means

Giacobbe is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Giacobbe is used in Italian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Giacobbe is pronounced /d͡ʒaˈkɔb.be/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Giacobbe between 2008 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2013; its best national rank was #11,188 in 2013.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Giacobbe?

Giacobbe had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 608,000
6 of 3,645,938 births
Among boys only
1 in 315,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
421,196 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Giacobbe sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 421,196 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Giacobbe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Giacobbes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Giacobbe was born before 2011 — so the typical Giacobbe is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
68.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 68.8% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Giacobbe rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2013 (6)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,188
2013

Giacobbe around the world

Where Giacobbe ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1995–1995
    #533
    in 1995

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Giacobbe by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,188
2013
Peak year
2013
6 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Giacobbe

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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