# Jakob (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jakob/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 31,959 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 31,959 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,097, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 910 | 334 |
| 2012 | 742 | 395 |
| 2013 | 711 | 416 |
| 2014 | 645 | 458 |
| 2015 | 548 | 525 |
| 2016 | 476 | 581 |
| 2017 | 404 | 640 |
| 2018 | 344 | 703 |
| 2019 | 312 | 759 |
| 2020 | 256 | 884 |
| 2021 | 281 | 846 |
| 2022 | 227 | 991 |
| 2023 | 189 | 1,119 |
| 2024 | 191 | 1,121 |
| 2025 | 135 | 1,372 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 84 | 449 |
| 2012 | 95 | 419 |
| 2013 | 105 | 388 |
| 2014 | 85 | 463 |
| 2015 | 91 | 445 |
| 2016 | 84 | 482 |
| 2017 | 60 | 606 |
| 2018 | 82 | 486 |
| 2019 | 51 | 674 |
| 2020 | 37 | 821 |
| 2021 | 47 | 729 |
| 2022 | 44 | 746 |
| 2023 | 25 | 1,139 |
| 2024 | 19 | 1,402 |
| 2025 | 26 | 1,124 |

## People named Jakob

- Jakob Böhme, German Christian mystic and theologian (1575-1624)
- Jakob Fugger, German merchant (1459-1526)
- Jakob Hurt, Estonian ethnologist, folklorist and linguist (1839-1907)
- Jakob Poulsen, Danish association football player
- Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, German biologist (1742-1795)
- Jakob Jantscher, association football player
- Jakob Fuglsang, Danish road racing cyclist
- Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer and keyboardist
- Jakob von Uexküll, Baltic German biologist, zoologist, and philosopher (1864-1944)
- Jakob Nielsen, Danish web usability consultant
- Jakob Pöltl, Austrian basketball player (born 1995)
- Jakob Prandtauer, Austrian architect (1660-1726)

## 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.