Jakobi
#1,657 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jakobi has been given to 2,695 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #1,657 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 173 recorded.
Babies named Jakobi, 2025
1 in 32,800
Jakobi 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jakobi?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 32,800
- 101 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 16,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,657
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 22,753 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jakobi 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 22,753 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jakobi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jakobis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jakobi was born before 2015 — so the typical Jakobi is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 38.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,650
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 38.9% of all recorded uses (1,032).
Is Jakobi 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
- −90
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −293
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −51
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.01×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 58.4%
- Peak was 2022 (173)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.8% average annual change
Spellings of Jakobi
Jakobi is not the most common spelling — Jacob is, with 92.3% against Jakobi's 0.25%.
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 Jakobi is used
Across 2016–2025, Jakobi was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 5,556 boys, against 1 in 14,008 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1South Carolina1 in 5,556
- 2Alabama1 in 6,250
- 3Georgia1 in 6,250
- 4North Carolina1 in 6,250
- 5Tennessee1 in 6,250
- 6Missouri1 in 8,333
- 7Ohio1 in 9,091
- 8Virginia1 in 9,091
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.
Jakobi around the world
Where Jakobi 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 & Wales2009–2025#4,275in 2025
- Canada2007–2007#2,209in 2007
- South Australia1988–2013#754in 2013
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.
Jakobi by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Jakobi
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Jakobi
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jakobi, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Jakobi
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.