Jakobe
#1,461 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jakobe has been given to 4,883 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #1,461 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 273 recorded.
Babies named Jakobe, 2025
1 in 27,200
Jakobe over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jakobe?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 27,200
- 122 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 14,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,461
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 18,836 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jakobe sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 18,836 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jakobe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jakobes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jakobe was born before 2012 — so the typical Jakobe is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 36.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 4,883
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 36.7% of all recorded uses (1,793).
Is Jakobe 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
- −156
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −625
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −298
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.76×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 44.7%
- Peak was 2020 (273)
- Years since peak
- 5
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.9% average annual change
Spellings of Jakobe
Jakobe is not the most common spelling — Jacob is, with 81.6% against Jakobe's 0.40%.
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 Jakobe is used
Across 2016–2025, Jakobe was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 2,703 boys, against 1 in 9,516 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 2,703
- 2Mississippi1 in 3,125
- 3Tennessee1 in 3,448
- 4North Carolina1 in 4,000
- 5South Carolina1 in 4,167
- 6Georgia1 in 4,762
- 7Michigan1 in 5,263
- 8Illinois1 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.
Jakobe around the world
Where Jakobe 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.
- Canada2009–2019#2,943in 2019
- South Australia2004–2009#708in 2009
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jakobe by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jakobe
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Jakobe
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jakobe, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Jakobe
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.