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Jacob

Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒeɪkəb/

Rank in 2024
#10,733
Born in 2024
9
Peak year
2004 · #1262
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for boys:6,496 in 2024 (#41)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 9 girls were named Jacob, about 1 in every 179,243.
  • It peaked in 2004 with 171 babies, ranked #1262.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1911.
  • 2,305 girls have been named Jacob since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Jacob per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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Greatest: 30 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 22 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 10 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 258 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,050 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Z: 785 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 150 babies, 0.01 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Middle English Iacob, from Late Latin Iācōbus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿăqōḇ, literally “May He Heel”), from the third-person singular masculine imperfective form of the Semitic verb "to heel" (with various meanings), in turn from עָקֵב (ʿāqēḇ, “heel of the foot”). Doublet of James, Yaakov, and Yakub.

  • A male given name from Hebrew.
Origin
Hebrew
Say it
/ˈd͡ʒeɪkəb/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Jacob, CC BY-SA 4.0.