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Job

#2,659 in 2025Boys' name

To be an enemy + enemy

Job has been given to 3,399 babies in the U.S. since 1891. In 2025 it ranked #2,659 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 89 recorded.

Babies named Job, 2025

1 in 67,700

Job over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Job: meaning, origin, and history

To be an enemy + enemy

Hebrew

What Job means

Job means “to be an enemy + enemy”, associated with אָיַב and אוֹיֵב.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Latin Iob, from Ancient Greek Ἰώβ (Iṓb), from Biblical Hebrew אִיּוֹב (ʾiyyōḇ), related to אָיַב (ʾāyaḇ, “to be an enemy”) and אוֹיֵב (ʾōyēḇ, “enemy”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Job (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Job is used in English and Dutch. Its origins include Hebrew.

Job comes through Latin Iob, Ancient Greek Ἰώβ and Biblical Hebrew אִיּוֹב.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Job is pronounced /d͡ʒəʊb/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,399 boys were recorded with the name Job between 1891 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 89 in 2004; its best national rank was #907 in 1891.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,483 in 2020 to #2,659 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,759 in 2015 to #2,659 in 2025.

How common is Job?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 67,700
49 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 34,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,659
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
46,897 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Job 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 46,897 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Job. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jobs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Job was born before 2001 — so the typical Job is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
22.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,218
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 22.3% of all recorded uses (759).

Is Job 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
−332
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−176
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−900
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.1%
Peak was 2004 (89)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#907
1891

Where Job is used

Across 1910–2025, Job was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 88,494 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Indiana1 in —
  7. 7Maryland1 in —
  8. 8New York1 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. Job has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Job around the world

Where Job 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
    1996–2022
    #4,002
    in 2022
  • France
    1900–2025
    #5,668
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2016
    #2,441
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1997–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Job

People whose public names include Job, 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.

Job in other languages

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

HiobJopi

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

Job by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,659
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 176
Best rank ever
#907
1891
Peak year
2004
89 that year
First recorded
1891
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,399
Count in 2025
49

Names similar to Job

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

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Names with a curve like Job

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

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Sibling names for Job

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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