Jakub
Jakub reached its high-water mark in 2008 at number 1,031, and has been recorded 3,067 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,240th. About 3,000 Jakubs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Jakub
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,067
- Estimated living today
- 3,000
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2008
- Best rank
- 1,031st
- Rank in 2025
- 3,240th
- First recorded
- 1981
How old the living Jakubs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,067 babies given the name since 1981, about 3,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,500 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Jakubs
- Jakub Kiwior (born 2000)Polish footballer
- Jakub Jankto (born 1996)Czech footballer
- Jakub Moder (born 1999)Polish association football player
- Jakub Słowik (born 1991)Polish association football player
- Jakub Vadlejch (born 1990)Czech javelin thrower
- Jakub Wawrzyniak (born 1983)Polish footballer
- Jakub Brabec (born 1992)Czech soccer player
- Jakub Kamiński (born 2002)Polish association football player
People named Jakub with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jakub is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jakub is most concentrated in Illinois (10.3×), New Jersey (4.3×), New York (2.6×), Connecticut (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2008
The most popular boys’ names the year Jakub peaked:
Jakub elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland boys | Jakub | 297,378 birth registrations | 1st |
| England and Wales boys | Jakub | 6,267 | 124th |
| Ireland boys | Jakub | 1,373 | 57th |
| Norway boys | Jakub | 1,371 | 138th |
| Scotland boys | Jakub | 543 | 129th |
| Belgium boys | Jakub | 317 | 479th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Jakub | 236 | 111th |
| Switzerland boys | Jakub | 211 | 427th |
| France boys | Jakub | 160 | 2,069th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jakub: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Jakub | 188 | 0.015% | 333rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Jakub | 22 | 0.005% | 430th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Jakub | 1 | 0.002% | 179th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Jakub is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.02% of children were given it – 59 of them.
Jakub: rank by region
In 2024, Jakub was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Jakub | 577 | 9 |
In 2025, Jakub was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland. It has come first somewhere in 3 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Jakub | 8 | 255 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Jakub | 11 | 151 |
| Lubelskie | Jakub | 10 | 168 |
| Lubuskie | Jakub | 10 | 65 |
| Łódzkie | Jakub | 10 | 199 |
| Małopolskie | Jakub | 7 | 465 |
| Mazowieckie | Jakub | 10 | 500 |
| Opolskie | Jakub | 6 | 85 |
| Podkarpackie | Jakub | 8 | 191 |
| Podlaskie | Jakub | 5 | 134 |
| Pomorskie | Jakub | 9 | 223 |
| Śląskie | Jakub | 7 | 372 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Jakub | 8 | 102 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Jakub | 8 | 116 |
| Wielkopolskie | Jakub | 11 | 245 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Jakub | 9 | 115 |
In 2022, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Jakub appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (130th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Jakub by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 81 | 184th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Jakub among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Jakub | 29 | 40 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Jakub lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 302 men called Jakub were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Jakub | 29 | 0.054 | 1,482 |
| Balears, Illes | Jakub | 25 | 0.040 | 1,431 |
| Tarragona | Jakub | 14 | 0.032 | 1,676 |
| Palmas, Las | Jakub | 17 | 0.029 | 2,459 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Jakub | 28 | 0.028 | 2,090 |
| Málaga | Jakub | 19 | 0.022 | 2,077 |
Listed in 10 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 42 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Jakub against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.