Jacob
Jacob ranks #43 in the United States in 2025, cooling off gently. First recorded 1880, best year 1998, 988,227 bearers across the whole run.
What Jacob carries
Jacob · Hebrew
“supplanter, 1”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Jacob’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Jacob, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Jacob since 1880
Jacob peaked in 1998 at #2; #43 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Jacob is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Jacob runs strongest in Wyoming at 1.28% in 2025, then District of Columbia and Rhode Island.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Jacob
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Joshua
#66 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jose
#95 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jonah
#128 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jordan
#131 in 2025 · Hebrew
Isaac
#47 in 2025 · Hebrew
Gabriel
#37 in 2025 · Hebrew
Hannah
#56 in 2025 · Hebrew
Isaiah
#57 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Jacob
Where does Jacob rank right now?
Jacob ranks #43 in the United States in 2025, cooling off gently. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Jacob mean?
The gloss on record reads “supplanter, 1”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Jacob?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Joshua, Jose and Jonah, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Jacob’s free Name Kit
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