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How popular is “Jakob” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jakob” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Jakob” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Jakob” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Jakob” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Jakob” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Jakob” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jakob” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1957 7 0.000001666 7 -100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 -100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 -100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 -100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 -100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1967 9 0.000002651 9 -100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 -100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1971 11 0.000003205 11 -100%
1972 17 0.000005409 17 -100%
1973 11 0.000003646 11 -100%
1974 27 0.000008882 27 -100%
1975 33 0.000010929 33 -100%
1976 27 0.000008898 27 -100%
1977 49 0.000015426 49 -100%
1978 46 0.000014493 46 -100%
1979 62 0.000018635 62 -100%
1980 78 0.000022645 78 -100%
1981 80 0.000023126 80 -100%
1982 78 0.000022235 78 -100%
1983 89 0.000025698 89 -100%
1984 84 0.000024077 84 -100%
1985 83 0.000023255 83 -100%
1986 146 0.000041045 146 -100%
1987 148 0.000041047 148 -100%
1988 179 0.000048443 179 -100%
1989 249 0.000064769 249 -100%
1990 306 0.00007742 306 -100%
1991 368 0.000094474 368 -100%
1992 436 0.000113504 436 -100%
1993 487 0.000129168 487 -100%
1994 530 0.000142563 530 -100%
1995 561 0.000153188 561 -100%
1996 611 0.000167526 611 -100%
1997 1387 0.000382542 1387 -100%
1998 1784 0.000485019 1784 -100%
1999 1693 0.000458327 1693 -100%
2000 2161 0.000571708 2161 -100%
2001 2192 0.000585566 2192 -100%
2002 1836 0.000491134 1836 -100%
2003 1607 0.000422637 1607 -100%
2004 1416 0.000370591 1416 -100%
2005 1215 0.000316008 1215 -100%
2006 1158 0.000292706 1158 -100%
2007 1108 0.000277161 1108 -100%
2008 1083 0.000275526 1083 -100%
2009 989 0.000258889 989 -100%
2010 1097 0.000296828 1097 -100%
2011 910 0.000248784 910 -100%
2012 742 0.000202878 742 -100%
2013 711 0.000195026 711 -100%
2014 645 0.000174024 645 -100%
2015 548 0.000148072 548 -100%
2016 476 0.000129746 476 -100%
2017 404 0.000112969 404 -100%
2018 344 0.000097841 344 -100%
2019 312 0.000089889 312 -100%
2020 256 0.000076633 256 -100%
2021 281 0.000082941 281 -100%
2022 227 0.000067098 227 -100%
2023 186 0.000056173 186 -100%
2024 190 0.000057083 190 -100%

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