The Popularity of the name Jacob
absolute
per 100K newborn boys
Interesting Facts about the name Jacob
Over the past 110 years, 931 920 boys and 618 girls have been named Jacob. The name Jacob ranks 31th in the United States among the most common names for boys. For the first time more than ten times newborns were named Jacob in 1910. The peak of popularity of the name Jacob came in the 1990s and 2000s. You can see absolute numbers and relative numbers on the chart. Indicators per 100K more accurately assess the popularity of the name.
Most Famous People in the World whose name is Jacob
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| Jacob Augustus Lockhart Clarke, British neurologist |
| Jacob ben Nissim ibn Shahin, Jewish philosopher who lived in Tunisia in the 10th century |
| Jacob Candelaria, American politician and attorney |
| Jacob Dungau Sagan, Malaysian politician and Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry, Malaysia |
| Jacob Eason, American college football quarterback |
| Jacob Hart Ela, American politician |
| Jacob Hassan, Spanish academic, writer, and university Professor in Universidad Complutense de Madrid of Jewish descent |
| Jacob Jehudah Leoni, Jewish Dutch scholar, translator of the Psalms, and expert on heraldry, of Sephardic descent |
| Jacob Mikhailovich Gordin or Yan, Ukrainian-American Yiddish-language playwright |
| Jacob Murphy, English footballer |
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