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Jacobo

#1,982 in 2025Boys' name

Heel of the foot, through Ἰάκωβος

Jacobo has been given to 3,486 babies in the U.S. since 1910. In 2025 it ranked #1,982 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 109 recorded.

Babies named Jacobo, 2025

1 in 43,100

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jacobo: meaning, origin, and history

Heel of the foot, through Ἰάκωβος

Biblical Hebrew

What Jacobo means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Jacobo is used in Spanish. Its origins include Biblical Hebrew.

Jacobo comes through Latin Iācōbus, Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος and Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jacob and Ἰάκωβος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Jacobo is pronounced /xaˈkobo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,486 boys were recorded with the name Jacobo between 1910 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 109 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,367 in 1910.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,662 in 2020 to #1,982 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,075 in 2015 to #1,982 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 Jacobo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 43,100
77 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 22,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,982
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
29,844 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jacobo 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 29,844 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jacobo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jacobos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jacobo was born before 2005 — so the typical Jacobo is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
23.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,258
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 23.0% of all recorded uses (802).

Is Jacobo 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
−239
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−320
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+93
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
70.6%
Peak was 2023 (109)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,367
1910

Spellings of Jacobo

Jacobo is not the most common spelling — Jacob is, with 93.3% against Jacobo's 0.33%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jacobo is used

Across 1910–2025, Jacobo was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 36,272 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 14,286
  2. 2Florida1 in 20,000
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 20,000
  4. 4California1 in 25,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in 33,333
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Colorado1 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. Jacobo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jacobo around the world

Where Jacobo 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
    2007–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jacobo

People whose public names include Jacobo, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jacobo in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Jacobo. Linked forms have their own page here.

JimJacoDiegoJacobJakobJakubJamesYacobYakovYakubJacopoYaacovGiacomoJacobusJacquesSantiagoJacóJaccoJakezJaumeYakupIacopoJaakkoSéamus

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Jacobo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,982
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 320
Best rank ever
#1,367
1910
Peak year
2023
109 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,486
Count in 2025
77

Names similar to Jacobo

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

JacobiJacariJacqueJacintoJacobeJacoryJaceonJacenJacobyJacielJacoreyJacoriJackyJacquezJacolbyJacquesJachinJacionJachaiJacksenJaceyonJacekJaceionJacarri

Names with a curve like Jacobo

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jacobo, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AvrohomKeoniNeelSloanObedAminAdnanHusseinZachSamiKenanAharon

Sibling names for Jacobo

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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