Jakob
19
Babies in 2024
-78%
10-year change
2013
Peak · 105
-24%
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 Jakob
Jakob has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 19 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 78% on a decade earlier.
Jakob reached its peak in 2013, when 105 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #388 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 18% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 2,071 boys have been officially registered with the name Jakob in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 625 boys were registered with the name, starting from 85 in 2014 and ending at 19 in 2024.