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Jakab

Boys' name

English equivalent of James

Jakab has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 1991. 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 1991, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Jakab, 1991

1 in 649,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jakab: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of James

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jakab means

Jakab is a English equivalent of James.

Origin, language, and formation

Jakab is used in Hungarian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include James.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hungarian, Jakab is pronounced [ˈjɒkɒb].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Jakab between 1991 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1991; its best national rank was #7,656 in 1991.

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 Jakab?

Jakab had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1991
1 in 649,000
6 of 3,892,928 births
Among boys only
1 in 337,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1991
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
449,730 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jakab 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 1991 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 449,730 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jakab. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jakabs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jakab was born before 1991 — so the typical Jakab is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6
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1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Jakab 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1991 (6)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#7,656
1991

Spellings of Jakab

Jakab is not the most common spelling — Jacob is, with 78.4% against Jakab'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.

Jakab around the world

Where Jakab 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
    1986–1991
    #481
    in 1991

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

Jakab 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
#7,656
1991
Peak year
1991
6 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
1991
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jakab

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

JakoviJakoaJakirJakhyJakiiJakeyJakodahJakhyriJakyiusJakshJakierJakhelJakorJakealJakkobJakyanJakyreJakiusJakhyeJaksJakailJakaziJakkiaJakaiven

Sibling names for Jakab

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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