Jeicob

Gender: Boy
Say it: JAY-kub
Origin: Hebrew
US rank, 2025: #5,606 for boys

Jeicob is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “holder of the heel”. In 2025 it ranked 5,606th for boys in the US (16 babies).

What does Jeicob mean?

Hebrew: phonetic Spanish-style spelling of Jacob

“holder of the heel”

In Genesis, Jacob is born grasping his twin Esau's heel and is later renamed Israel.

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

Jeicob is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Jeicob in the US?

Rank in 2025: 5,606th among boys
Babies in 2025: 16 about 1 in 110,000 boys
Five-year trend: Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class: under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 16 boys in the US were named Jeicob, making it the 5,606th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 18 boys. It first appears in the records in 2016.

Half of all the boys named Jeicob in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 6,274 boys in the US were given Jeicob or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #49, up from #5,606 for this spelling alone.