boys:
1.3k births since 1974
#3329 (27th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1974
#6459 (17th percentile)
The name Jacobe is the #6,459 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,283 recorded births since 1974. This represents the 16.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,329 (27.4% percentile) for all time with 1,283 births since 1974.
Jacobe first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1974 (first recorded for boys in 1974).
For boys, Jacobe reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 6.2% percentile (ranked #774) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 27 births per million (ranked 6.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2007, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jacobe ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 16.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jacobe".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Jacobe. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.8% confident that Jacobe is pronounced as juh-KOHB, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-KOH-bee, at 30.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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