Jakob
2025 SSA
About Jakob
After cracking the US Top 200 in the early 2000s, fueled by Jacob's rise, this name has been losing steam in recent years. But Jakob is the top form of the name in many other countries, cultures, and languages, ranking highly in Germany, Norway, Austria, Iceland, and Slovenia. Jakub is the Polish variation.
Pronounced YAH-kop.
As of October 2026, Jakob ranked #1372 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #172 in 2001.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #458 | 645 | 335.8 |
| 2015 | #525 | 548 | 285.9 |
| 2016 | #581 | 476 | 250.8 |
| 2017 | #640 | 404 | 218.3 |
| 2018 | #702 | 344 | 189.4 |
| 2019 | #759 | 312 | 173.9 |
| 2020 | #883 | 256 | 148.3 |
| 2021 | #845 | 281 | 160.6 |
| 2022 | #990 | 227 | 130 |
| 2023 | #1,134 | 186 | 108.7 |
| 2024 | #1,122 | 190 | 110.3 |
| 2025 | #1,372 | 135 | 79 |
World rankings
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Jakob on lists
Famous Jakobs
- Jakob Luke Dylan
American singer; son of singer Bob Dylan
- Jakob Hlasek
Swiss pro tennis player
- Jakob Boehme
German Christian mystic and theologian
- Jakob Diemer Fuglsang
Danish cyclist
- Jakob Johan Sigfrid Friis
Norwegian politician
- Jakob Johann von Uexkull
German biologist
- Jakob Sveistrup
Danish singer
- Jakob Andreae
German Lutheran theologian
- Jakob Silfverberg
ice hockey player (first syllable pronounced as Jack instead of Jake)
- Jakob Danger Armstrong
son of American singer Billie Joe Armstrong
- Jakob Zebedee Leaf
son of English actors Tamsin Greig and Richard Leaf
Jakob in pop culture
- "Jakob the Liar
" 1999 film starring Robin Williams
- Jakob Selander
character from "The Dung,Beetle Flies at Dusk," by Maria Gripe
- Jakob
Andreas Ullstadius, character from "The Dung,Beetle Flies at Dusk," by Maria Gripe
- Jakob
character from the video game "Fire Emblem Fates"