Jacob
Top 1000
On Nameberry
About Jacob
Variation of Coby
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #4 | 16,916 | 8,806.4 |
| 2015 | #4 | 15,999 | 8,347 |
| 2016 | #7 | 14,554 | 7,669.1 |
| 2017 | #9 | 13,265 | 7,166.6 |
| 2018 | #13 | 11,891 | 6,547.3 |
| 2019 | #12 | 10,786 | 6,011.5 |
| 2020 | #15 | 9,306 | 5,391.4 |
| 2021 | #24 | 8,481 | 4,847.7 |
| 2022 | #32 | 7,658 | 4,386 |
| 2023 | #35 | 7,005 | 4,095.1 |
| 2024 | #41 | 6,496 | 3,770.4 |
| 2025 | #43 | 6,152 | 3,601.7 |
World rankings
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Famous Jacobs
- Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
President of South Africa
- Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German philologist, jurist, and mythologist.
- Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Gyllenhaal
American actor.
- Jacob Edward "Jake" Peavy
American baseball pitcher.
- Jacob Anthony deGrom
American baseball pitcher.
- Jacob Mark "Jake" Pitts
American guitarist.
- Jacob Vargas
Mexican,American actor.
- Jacob Dolson Cox
American politician; 28th Governor of Ohio.
- Jacob Artist
American actor and singer.
- Jacob Daniel Handy
American actor.
- Jacob Tremblay
Canadian actor.
- Jacob Seth Lofland
American actor.
- Jacob Hubner
German entomologist.
- Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael
Dutch landscape painter.
- Jacob Whitesides
American singer
- Jacob Tyler "J.T." Realmuto
American baseball player.
- Jacob Loucks Devers
U.S. Army general
- Jacob Warner
birth name of Jack Leonard "J. L." Warner, Canadian,American film executive
- Jacob August Riis
Danish,American journalist and activist
- Jacob Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
- Jacob Pavlovich Adler (born Yankev P. Adler)
Ukrainian,American Yiddish actor
- Jacob Edward "Jake" Hoffman
American actor
- Jacob "Jake" Dalton
American artistic gymnast
- (Rolf) Jacob Sartorius
American pop singer
- Jacob Batalon
Filipino,American actor
- Jacob Emerson "Jake" Fishman (b. 2008)
son of actress Courtney Thorne,Smith
- Jacob Bryan Fisher (b. 2019)
son of American singer,songwriter Carrie Underwood and American former professional ice hockey player Mike Fisher
- Ryan Paevey (born Ryan Jacob Paevey
Vlieger), American model and actor
- Jacob Erwin Wetterling (b. 1978)
11 year old American boy who was abducted and murdered in 1989
- Jacob Elordi
Australian actor
Jacob in pop culture
- Jacob Marley
character from Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"
- Jacob Black
werewolf character in the "Twilight" series
- Jacob
character from TV's "Lost"
- Jacob David "Jake" Harper
character on TV's "Two and a Half Men"
- Jacob Jankowski
main character in book/movie "Water for Elephants"
- Jacob Portman
main character in the "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" series by Ransom Riggs
- Jacob "Jake" Pentecost
character in "Pacific Rim"
- Jacob Carter
character on TV's "Stargate: SG,1"
- Jacob Gallagher
character on British soap "Emmerdale"
- Jacob "Jake" Moon
character on British soap "EastEnders"
- Jacob "Jake" Sisko
character on TV's "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"
- Jacob Daniel Johnson
character in the Nightmare on Elm Street series
- Jacobitism
18th century political movement to restore the Roman Catholic Stuart King James II of England to the throne
- Jacob "Jake" Barnes
character in Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises"
- Jacob
a character in "The Forest of Hands and Teeth" by Carrie Ryan
- Jacob Kowalski
character in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
- Jacob Palmer
character in film "Crazy, Stupid, Love"
- Jacob Hopkins
character from the animated show "The Owl House"
