girls:
45 births since 2002
#5671 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.4k births since 1993
#2559 (44th percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1993
#5356 (31st percentile)
The name Jakobi is the #5,356 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,479 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 30.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 30.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,559 (44.2% percentile) for all time with 2,434 births since 1993. For girls, it ranks #5,671 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 45 births since 2002.
Jakobi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (1993 for boys and 2002 for girls).
The name Jakobi has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jakobi reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 18.1% percentile (ranked #757) with 92 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 92 births per million (ranked 18.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Jakobi ranks #778 for boys (14.6% percentile) with 75 births per million, which is 82.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jakobi reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #890) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% 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 "Jakobi".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Jakobi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Jakobi is pronounced as juh-KOH-bee, which has 3 syllables.
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