Jake
The boy's name Jake has been in the national records since 1880, with 129,539 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 457th. About 115,000 Jakes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jake boys named Jake
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 129,539
- Estimated living today
- 115,000
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 2004
- Best rank
- 98th
- Rank in 2025
- 457th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 217 / 129,322
How old the living Jakes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 129,539 babies given the name since 1880, about 115,000 are alive — 89 in every hundred. Roughly 33,000 of them are children and 2,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Originally a medieval variant of Jack; today also used as a diminutive form of Jacob and James.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Jakes
- Jake Gyllenhaal (born 1980)American actor
- Jake Paul (born 1997)American YouTuber and boxer
- Jake Zyrus (born 1992)Filipino singer
- Jake Wesley Rogers (born 1996)American pop musician and songwriter
- Jake Abel (born 1987)American television actor
- Jake T. Austin (born 1994)American actor
- Jake LaMotta (1922–2017)American boxer
- Jake Johnson (born 1978)American actor
People named Jake with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jake is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jake is most concentrated in Nevada (2.0×), Utah (1.9×), New Jersey (1.8×), Idaho (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2004
The most popular boys’ names the year Jake peaked:
Jake elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Jake | 67,109 | 18th |
| Ireland boys | Jake | 6,354 | 28th |
| Scotland boys | Jake | 3,280 | 44th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Jake | 2,630 | 14th |
| New Zealand boys | Jake | 2,421 | 45th |
| Belgium boys | Jake | 365 | 344th |
| France boys | Jake | 295 | 1,687th |
| Switzerland boys | Jake | 141 | 592nd |
| Poland boys | Jake | 27 birth registrations | 372nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jake: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Jake | 97 | 0.008% | 604th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Jake | 37 | 0.009% | 321st |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Jake | 6 | 0.009% | 113th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Jake | 1 | 0.027% | 13th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Jake is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 30 of them.
Jake: rank by region
In 2025, Jake was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Jake | 464 | 12 |
| Wallonia | Jake | 356 | 7 |
In 2024, Jake was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Jake | 8 | 1 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Jake appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (129th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Jake by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 9 | 451st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Jake among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Jake | 304 | 331 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Jake against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.