girls:
306 births since 1982
#5410 (5th percentile)
boys:
4k births since 1973
#1929 (58th percentile)
overall:
4.3k births since 1973
#4153 (46th percentile)
The name Jacobi is the #4,153 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,349 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 46.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 46.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,929 (57.9% percentile) for all time with 4,043 births since 1973. For girls, it ranks #5,410 (5.3% percentile) for all time with 306 births since 1982.
Jacobi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for boys and 1982 for girls).
The name Jacobi has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jacobi reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 20.3% percentile (ranked #723) with 87 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 87 births per million (ranked 19.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jacobi ranks #821 for boys (9.9% percentile) with 52 births per million, which is 59.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jacobi reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #843) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jacobi".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Jacobi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Jacobi is pronounced as juh-KOH-bee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yah-KOH-bee, at 15.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like JH AH0 K OW1 B IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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