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Jakeb

About 1,170 American babies have been named Jakeb since 1982, most of them around 1999. It has not appeared in the national data since 2017. About 1,100 Jakebs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Jakeb

By the numbers

Total US births
1,170
Estimated living today
1,100
Median age today
25
Peak year
1999
Best rank
1,517th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1982

How old the living Jakebs are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,170 babies given the name since 1982, about 1,100 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 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 Jakeb is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Jakeb is most concentrated in Indiana (6.3×), Texas (3.7×), California (2.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1999

The most popular boys’ names the year Jakeb peaked:

All the names of 1999

Related names

Jakeb against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.