Jacob
1.48k
Babies in 2024
-71%
10-year change
2012
Peak · 5.29k
-10%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Jacob
Jacob has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 1,484 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 71% on a decade earlier.
Jacob reached its peak in 2012, when 5,286 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #5 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 28% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 93,754 boys have been officially registered with the name Jacob in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 34,445 boys were registered with the name, starting from 5,050 in 2014 and ending at 1,484 in 2024.