Jaykob
Boy · JAY-kub · Hebrew
Jaykob is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “holder of the heel”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Jaykob mean?
Hebrew: variant of Jacob
“holder of the heel”
Respelling of Jacob, the biblical patriarch who was born holding his twin Esau's heel.
- Say it
- JAY-kub
Is Jaykob a girl's or a boy's name?
Jaykob is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jaykob in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #12,003among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 340,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 57% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Jaykob, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,976th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 75 boys. It first appears in the records in 1990.
2025 had the fewest boys named Jaykob since it first appeared, in 1990.
Half of all the boys named Jaykob in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 6,274 boys in the US were given Jaykob or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #49, up from #12,003 for this spelling alone.
Jaykob in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,661 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,822 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,582 |
| 2020 | 14 | #5,976 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,476 |
| 2018 | 33 | #3,369 |
| 2017 | 31 | #3,514 |
| 2016 | 28 | #3,775 |
| 2015 | 30 | #3,590 |
| 2014 | 50 | #2,490 |
| 2013 | 40 | #2,846 |
| 2012 | 75 | #1,908 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,231 |
| 2010 | 74 | #1,912 |
| 2009 | 72 | #1,958 |
| 2008 | 58 | #2,264 |
| 2007 | 39 | #2,972 |
| 2006 | 53 | #2,347 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,202 |
| 2004 | 46 | #2,415 |
| 2003 | 47 | #2,265 |
| 2002 | 31 | #2,939 |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,113 |
| 2000 | 41 | #2,326 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,475 |
| 1998 | 25 | #3,089 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,872 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,528 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,400 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,446 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,764 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,652 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,263 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,171 |
Nicknames for Jaykob
- Jake 251 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Jaykob
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Jonah Judah Johan Zion Caleb Noah Jakob Josiah Jaylen Axel Asher Jackson
Other spellings of Jaykob
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