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Jaycob

#1,926 in 2025Boys' name

He will/shall heel, through Jacob

Jaycob has been given to 4,519 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #1,926 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 236 recorded.

Babies named Jaycob, 2025

1 in 40,900

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jaycob: meaning, origin, and history

He will/shall heel, through Jacob

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jaycob means

Jaycob belongs to the name family reached through Jaycob → Jacob. Its meaning is “he will/shall heel”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jaycob is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jacob.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,519 boys were recorded with the name Jaycob between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 236 in 2012; its best national rank was #888 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,569 in 2020 to #1,926 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,065 in 2015 to #1,926 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 Jaycob?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 40,900
81 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 21,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,926
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
28,370 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jaycob 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 28,370 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaycob. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jaycobs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jaycob was born before 2010 — so the typical Jaycob is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,519
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.9% of all recorded uses (1,893).

Is Jaycob 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
+478
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−357
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−861
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
34.3%
Peak was 2012 (236)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#888
2012

Spellings of Jaycob

Jaycob is not the most common spelling — Jacob is, with 84.3% against Jaycob's 0.39%.

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 Jaycob is used

Across 2016–2025, Jaycob was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 5,882 boys, against 1 in 12,373 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

117 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 5,882
  2. 2New York1 in 6,250
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 9,091
  4. 4Florida1 in 10,000
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 11,111
  6. 6California1 in 12,500
  7. 7Texas1 in 14,286
  8. 8Connecticut1 in 25,000

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.

Jaycob around the world

Where Jaycob 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
    1999–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1989–2013
    #754
    in 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.

Jaycob by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,926
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 357
Best rank ever
#888
2012
Peak year
2012
236 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,519
Count in 2025
81

Names similar to Jaycob

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

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Names with a curve like Jaycob

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

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Sibling names for Jaycob

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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