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Jake

Pronounced /d͡ʒeɪk/

Rank in 2024
#422
Born in 2024
743
Peak year
2004 · #98
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Cooling
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 743 boys were named Jake, about 1 in every 2,309.
  • It peaked in 2004 with 4,471 babies, ranked #98.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 128,639 boys have been named Jake since 1880.

Who else has this name

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

  1. 0.4
    Greatest
  2. 0.2
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. 0.2
    Gen X
  5. 1.1
    Millennials
  6. 1.9
    Gen Z
  7. 0.8
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 6,075 babies, 0.36 per 1,000. Silent: 3,492 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Boomers: 3,108 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen X: 4,570 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Millennials: 32,271 babies, 1.06 per 1,000. Gen Z: 60,634 babies, 1.93 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 16,504 babies, 0.76 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Originally a medieval variant of Jack; today also used as a diminutive form of Jacob and James.

  • A male given name.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/d͡ʒeɪk/

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

Other spellings

  • GirlBoyRising

    Jakai

    Rank
    #648
    Born '24
    426
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20242024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Jackie

    Rank
    #2,888
    Born '24
    44
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19512024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Jacky

    Rank
    #9,482
    Born '24
    8
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19532024