first name
JACOB
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 805,730 people named Jacob, 74.9% reported their origin as White, 15.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.2% as two or more races. Virtually all are male (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Jacob peaked in 1998, when 36,091 babies got the name.
At least 990,532 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Jacob by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1. The largest share of babies named Jacob, 44.6%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Jacob is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jacob has been most common in Nevada (2×), Alaska (1.9×), and Utah (1.6×), and least common in District of Columbia (0.42×).
978,347 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Jacob
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jacob, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Jacob ranks #1,367 of 156,621, with 25,360 people. See Jacob as a last name
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