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Jago

Boys' name

Heel

Jago has been given to 122 babies in the U.S. since 2003. 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 2015, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Jago, 2023

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jago: meaning, origin, and history

Heel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jago means

Jago means “heel”, associated with ‘āqḗḇ.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Cornish Jago, from Latin Iācōbus (“James”), from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (ya‘ăqṓḇ, “Jacob”, literally “he will/shall heel”), from עָקֵב (‘āqḗḇ, “heel”) and the Biblical account of the patriarch Jacob's birth in Genesis 25:26. Doublet of Iago, Yago, James, Jacob, Jacques, Diego, Santiago, and San Diego.

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Origin, language, and formation

Jago is used in English and Cornish.

Jago comes through Cornish Jago, Latin Iacobus, Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος and Hebrew יַעֲקֹב.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include James, Iago, Yago, Jacob, Jacques, Diego and Santiago.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 122 boys were recorded with the name Jago between 2003 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2015; its best national rank was #7,208 in 2020.

How common is Jago?

Jago had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 214,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
287,205 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jago 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 2023 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 287,205 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jago. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jagos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jago was born before 2016 — so the typical Jago is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
56.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
122
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 56.6% of all recorded uses (69).

Is Jago 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2015 (11)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,208
2020

Spellings of Jago

Jago is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 28.6% against Jago's <0.01%.

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.

Jago around the world

Where Jago 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
    #639
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2011
    #648
    in 2011
  • Ireland
    2007–2008
    #698
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1978–2004
    #589
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jago 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
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Best rank ever
#7,208
2020
Peak year
2015
11 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
122
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jago

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

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Sibling names for Jago

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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