Jakeb
Jakeb is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 199974 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1982
- 1,170people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,170 boys have been named Jakeb in the United States since 1982, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1999, with 74 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 74 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2000, and the 2000s alone account for 43%.
By decade
In 1999, its biggest year
Jakeb was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1999 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Nicholas. See all of 1999.
Names that rose and fell with Jakeb
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Zacarypeak 2000
- Marcoantoniopeak 2001
- Brendenpeak 2000
- Devenpeak 2000
- Keontepeak 2000
- Zackarypeak 2001
- Traveonpeak 2003
- Trevonpeak 1997
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.