Jakoby
#3,985 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jakoby has been given to 1,703 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #3,985 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 118 recorded.
Babies named Jakoby, 2025
1 in 123,000
Jakoby 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jakoby?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 123,000
- 27 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 63,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,985
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 85,108 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jakoby 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jakoby. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jakobys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jakoby was born before 2012 — so the typical Jakoby is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 47.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,703
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 47.5% of all recorded uses (809).
Is Jakoby 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
- −429
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,103
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,995
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.37×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 22.9%
- Peak was 2018 (118)
- Years since peak
- 7
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.9% average annual change
Spellings of Jakoby
Jakoby is not the most common spelling — Jacob is, with 92.7% against Jakoby's 0.16%.
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 Jakoby is used
Across 2016–2025, Jakoby was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 62,541 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).
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.
Jakoby around the world
Where Jakoby 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 & Wales2009–2020#4,608in 2020
- Canada2011–2018#2,281in 2018
- South Australia2008–2008#726in 2008
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.
Jakoby by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jakoby
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jakoby
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.