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Giacomo

#2,654 in 2025Boys' name

Heel of the foot, through Ἰάκωβος

Giacomo has been given to 1,896 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #2,654 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 56 recorded.

Babies named Giacomo, 2025

1 in 67,700

Giacomo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Giacomo: meaning, origin, and history

Heel of the foot, through Ἰάκωβος

Hebrew

What Giacomo means

Giacomo belongs to the name family reached through Giacomo → Ἰάκωβος. Its meaning is “heel of the foot”.

Origin, language, and formation

Giacomo is used in Italian. Its origins include Hebrew.

Giacomo comes through Late Latin Iācomus, Latin Iācōbus, Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος and Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include James, Iācōbus and Ἰάκωβος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Giacomo is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒa.ko.mo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,896 boys were recorded with the name Giacomo between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 56 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,312 in 1914.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,673 in 2020 to #2,654 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,111 in 2015 to #2,654 in 2025.

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 Giacomo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 67,700
49 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 34,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,654
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
46,897 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Giacomo 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 2025 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 46,897 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Giacomo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Giacomos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Giacomo was born before 2001 — so the typical Giacomo is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
22.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,651
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 22.3% of all recorded uses (423).

Is Giacomo 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
+639
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,019
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,457
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.96×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.5%
Peak was 2006 (56)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,312
1914

Where Giacomo is used

Across 1910–2025, Giacomo was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 101,131 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Giacomo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Giacomo around the world

Where Giacomo 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,133
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2013–2013
    #711
    in 2013
  • France
    1913–2025
    #1,616
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,459
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1949–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Giacomo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,654
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,019
Best rank ever
#1,312
1914
Peak year
2006
56 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,896
Count in 2025
49

Names similar to Giacomo

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

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Sibling names for Giacomo

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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