How rare is the name Jacoby?

8,736 people in the United States have the first name Jacoby, about 1 in 34,573. It ranks #2,689 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

JACOBY

#2,689

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,736
About
1 in 34,573
This common or more
80.6%
Who bears it

Of the 8,736 people named Jacoby, 39.9% reported their origin as Black, 37.5% as White and 10.8% as Hispanic or Latino. 98.2% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jacoby peaked in 2008, when 696 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19592025
Peak year
2008
Births that year
696
In 2025*
126 ▼82%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 11,281 babies have been given the name since 1959. 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.

Jacoby by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #1,296. The largest share of babies named Jacoby, 47.8%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1950s#13,4979
1960s#15,8207
1970s#5,553189
1980s#2,528785
1990s#1,8841,717
2000s#1,4393,269
2010s#1,2964,189
2020s#2,3451,116
Baby boom 1946–640.1%
Generation X 1965–802%
Millennials 1981–9617.2%
Generation Z 1997–1247.8%
2013 and later32.9%

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 Jacoby is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jacoby has been most common in Louisiana (4.7×), Mississippi (2.6×), and New Hampshire (2.5×), and least common in New York (0.22×).

8,977 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.

Exactly as common as Jacoby

1 other first name also has 8,736 people.

#2,689 Brylee · 8,736

Either side of Jacoby

#2,687 Sanjay · 8,737#2,689 Brylee · 8,736#2,691 Deann · 8,731#2,692 Marlo · 8,723

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jacoby, most common first.

#37 Jacob · 805,730#4,005 Jacobo · 4,854#5,351 Jacobi · 3,226#11,138 Jakoby · 1,168#11,403 Jacobe · 1,125#14,924 Jacoba · 780#35,030 Jacobb · 231#44,359 Jacobey · 156

Also a last name

As a last name, Jacoby ranks #3,892 of 156,621, with 8,862 people. See Jacoby as a last name

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