Jaykob

#12,835 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Jaykob has been given to 1,119 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #12,835 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 75 recorded.

Babies named Jaykob, 2025

1 in 663,000

Jaykob over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,835
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jaykob 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaykob. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jaykobs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jaykob was born before 2009 — so the typical Jaykob is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
43.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,119
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Choose a decade

2000s — 43.8% of all recorded uses (490).

Is Jaykob 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
−4,214
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,722
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−9,209
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.17×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.7%
Peak was 2012 (75)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,912
2012

Spellings of Jaykob

Jaykob is not the most common spelling — Jacob is, with 89.7% against Jaykob's 0.10%.

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 Jaykob is used

Across 1910–2025, Jaykob was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 217,015 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in —
  4. 4Colorado1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Tennessee1 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. Jaykob has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jaykob around the world

Where Jaykob 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
    2010–2016
    #4,810
    in 2016
  • Canada
    2000–2021
    #2,792
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1994–2010
    #494
    in 2010

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.

Jaykob by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,835
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,722
Best rank ever
#1,912
2012
Peak year
2012
75 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,119
Count in 2025
5

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Sibling names for Jaykob

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