Jacob Boys

The U.S. popularity history of Jacob: every year it appeared on the national list since 1880, with 988,227 recorded births in total. All figures come from official Social Security card application data.

Total recorded births

988,227

Peak year

1998 #2

Years on the list

146

10-year trend

-40.0%

In the 1990s · Most used in CA in {year}

Popularity history

1880–2025

Year	Births	Rank
2011	20,403	#1
2012	19,110	#1
2013	18,201	#2
2014	16,923	#4
2015	16,005	#4
2016	14,559	#7
2017	13,269	#9
2018	11,897	#13
2019	10,797	#12
2020	9,309	#15
2021	8,494	#24
2022	7,667	#32
2023	7,015	#35
2024	6,541	#40
2025	6,152	#43

Most recent years shown. The full curve above covers every year the name appeared.

Where {name} was most used in 1998

3,568

2,717

2,105

1,764

1,648

1,430

Names from the same era

Jared · 1998 Trevor · 1998 Devin · 1998 Ricardo · 1998 Spencer · 1998 Tanner · 1998 Dalton · 1998 Dante · 1998 Quentin · 1998 Nickolas · 1998

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