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Jakub

#3,270 in 2025Boys' name

Heel of the foot

Jakub has been given to 3,067 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #3,270 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 184 recorded.

Babies named Jakub, 2025

1 in 92,100

Jakub over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jakub: meaning, origin, and history

Heel of the foot

Hebrew, Ancient Greek and Latin

What Jakub means

Jakub means “heel of the foot”, associated with ‘āqḗḇ.

Origin, language, and formation

Jakub is used in Czech, Polish and Slovak. Its origins include Hebrew, Ancient Greek and Latin.

Jakub comes through Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος and Hebrew יַעֲקֹב.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include James and Jacob.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Jakub is pronounced [ˈjakup].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,067 boys were recorded with the name Jakub between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 184 in 2008; its best national rank was #1,035 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,671 in 2020 to #3,270 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,696 in 2015 to #3,270 in 2025.

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 Jakub?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 92,100
36 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 47,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,270
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
63,832 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jakub 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 2025 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 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jakub. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jakubs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jakub was born before 2007 — so the typical Jakub is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
45.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,067
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 45.7% of all recorded uses (1,403).

Is Jakub 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
−140
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−599
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,574
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.39×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.6%
Peak was 2008 (184)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,035
2008

Spellings of Jakub

Jakub is not the most common spelling — Jacob is, with 84.2% against Jakub's 0.26%.

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 Jakub is used

Across 1910–2025, Jakub was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 56,205 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 9,091
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 20,000
  3. 3New York1 in 33,333
  4. 4Connecticut1 in 50,000
  5. 5California1 in 100,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  7. 7Arizona1 in —
  8. 8Florida1 in —

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. Jakub has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jakub around the world

Where Jakub 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
    #573
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2006–2025
    #495
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2006–2024
    #404
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2004–2025
    #372
    in 2025
  • France
    1997–2021
    #5,496
    in 2021
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,331
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1960–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Jakub

People whose public names include Jakub, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jakub in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Jakub. Linked forms have their own page here.

JimJacoKubaDiegoJacobJakobJakovJamesYacobYakovYakubJacoboJacopoSeamusThiagoGiacomoJacobusJacquesSantiagoJacóIacobJaccoJakezJaume

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Jakub by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,270
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 599
Best rank ever
#1,035
2008
Peak year
2008
184 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,067
Count in 2025
36

Names similar to Jakub

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

JakaiJakobiJakhiJakobeJakariJakobyJakeemJaksonJakyeJakebJakelJakobJakoriJakhariJakieJakhaiJakobieJakiJakJakarriJakyriJakinJakotaJakyrie

Names with a curve like Jakub

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jakub, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JavenTavionJayvonTreytonYashJordinAdinJashawnYovaniIsaakPranavEthen

Sibling names for Jakub

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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