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Jacob
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒeɪkəb/
Rank in 2024
#41
Born in 2024
6,496
Peak year
1998 · #2
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for girls:9 in 2024 (#10,733)
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 6,496 boys were named Jacob, about 1 in every 264.
- It peaked in 1998 with 36,027 babies, ranked #2.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 981,940 boys 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.
- 1.1Greatest1901–27
- 0.5Silent1928–45
- 0.3Boomers1946–64
- 1.7Gen X1965–80
- 10.1Millennials1981–96
- 14.1Gen Z1997–12
- 6.5Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 18,324 babies, 1.10 per 1,000. Silent: 9,463 babies, 0.46 per 1,000. Boomers: 9,900 babies, 0.26 per 1,000. Gen X: 47,476 babies, 1.74 per 1,000. Millennials: 308,590 babies, 10.14 per 1,000. Gen Z: 441,284 babies, 14.06 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 140,553 babies, 6.47 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.