# Jago (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jago/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | “james”, “may he heel”, “to heel”, “heel of the foot” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 122 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 122 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,779, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Cornish Jago, from Latin Iācōbus (“James”), from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿăqōḇ, literally “May He Heel”), from the third-person singular masculine imperfective form of the Semitic verb "to heel" (with various meanings), in turn from עָקֵב (ʿāqēḇ, “heel of the foot”), historically mediated by the folk etymology found in Biblical account of the patriarch Jacob's birth in Genesis 25:26. Doublet of Iago, Yago, James, Jacob, Jacques, Diego, Santiago, and San Diego.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | 11,603 |
| 2005 | 10 | 7,340 |
| 2009 | 5 | 13,239 |
| 2011 | 9 | 8,340 |
| 2012 | 9 | 8,443 |
| 2014 | 8 | 9,114 |
| 2015 | 11 | 7,261 |
| 2016 | 10 | 7,823 |
| 2017 | 8 | 9,190 |
| 2018 | 7 | 10,089 |
| 2019 | 7 | 10,169 |
| 2020 | 11 | 7,213 |
| 2021 | 9 | 8,447 |
| 2022 | 5 | 13,124 |
| 2023 | 8 | 9,261 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 65 | 537 |
| 2012 | 54 | 640 |
| 2013 | 82 | 469 |
| 2014 | 88 | 452 |
| 2015 | 77 | 500 |
| 2016 | 73 | 531 |
| 2017 | 70 | 554 |
| 2018 | 79 | 497 |
| 2019 | 78 | 501 |
| 2020 | 81 | 479 |
| 2021 | 83 | 482 |
| 2022 | 65 | 577 |
| 2023 | 74 | 525 |
| 2024 | 67 | 567 |
| 2025 | 57 | 639 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.