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Jakobie

Gender
Boy
Say it
ja-KOH-bee
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#5,044 for boys

Jakobie is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “supplanter; holder of the heel”. In 2025 it ranked 5,044th for boys in the US (19 babies).

What does Jakobie mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Jakobi, itself a spelling of Jacobi, a surname form of Jacob

“supplanter; holder of the heel”

Meaning borrowed from Jakobi.

Is Jakobie a girl's or a boy's name?

Jakobie is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 19 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Jakobie in the US?

Rank in 2025
5,044th among boys
Babies in 2025
19 about 1 in 90,000 boys
Five-year trend
Rising up 39% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 19 boys in the US were named Jakobie, making it the 5,044th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,976th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 41 boys. It first appears in the records in 1997.

Half of all the boys named Jakobie in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 455 boys in the US were given Jakobie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #593, up from #5,044 for this spelling alone.

1997Busiest: 41 in 20092025
Jakobie in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202519#5,044
202429#3,791
202323#4,452
202225#4,180
202112#6,693
202014#5,976
201923#4,333
201814#6,032
201718#5,107
201618#5,120
201512#6,671
201431#3,454
201325#3,962
201227#3,804
201118#4,981
201031#3,452
200941#2,893
200832#3,419
200721#4,491
200621#4,366
200514#5,572
200427#3,452
200330#3,114
200221#3,904
200122#3,716
200016#4,567
199915#4,531
199813#4,868
19977#7,275

Names like Jakobie

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Jakobie

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Jakobie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jakobie, updated 20 October 2026.