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Jacoby

#1,430 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Jacoby has been given to 11,281 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #1,430 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 691 recorded.

Babies named Jacoby, 2025

1 in 26,300

Jacoby over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jacoby: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jacoby means

Jacoby is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Jacoby is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Jacoby is pronounced /dʒəˈkoʊbi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,161 boys were recorded with the name Jacoby between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 691 in 2008; its best national rank was #422 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #911 in 2020 to #1,430 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #656 in 2015 to #1,430 in 2025.

In the United States, 120 girls were recorded with the name Jacoby between 1984 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1992; its best national rank was #9,017 in 1992.

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 Jacoby?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 26,300
126 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 13,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,430
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jacoby 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jacoby. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jacobys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jacoby was born before 2009 — so the typical Jacoby is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,161
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.4% of all recorded uses (4,178).

Is Jacoby 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
−108
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−519
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−774
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.32×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.2%
Peak was 2008 (691)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#422
2008

Spellings of Jacoby

Jacoby is not the most common spelling — Jacob is, with 91.4% against Jacoby's 1.0%.

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 Jacoby is used

Across 2016–2025, Jacoby was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 3,226 boys, against 1 in 8,227 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 33,333).

331 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 3,226
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 3,448
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 3,846
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 4,762
  5. 5Michigan1 in 5,263
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 5,263
  7. 7New Mexico1 in 5,263
  8. 8Georgia1 in 5,556

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.

Jacoby around the world

Where Jacoby 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
    2009–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1996–2012
    #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 Jacoby

People whose public names include Jacoby, 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.

Jacoby in other languages

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

Jakoby

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

Jacoby by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,430
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 519
Best rank ever
#422
2008
Peak year
2008
691 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,161
Count in 2025
126

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,017
1992
Peak year
1992
9 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
120
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jacoby

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

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Names with a curve like Jacoby

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

LondonTalonDominikGiovaniXzavierZechariahGiancarloColtenChaceEanBrodieAdrien

Sibling names for Jacoby

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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