Jake
Jake is ranked 422nd among boys in 2024 (743 births). Its best rank was 96th, in 2000.
- Rank in 2024
- #422down 14 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 7430.04% of boys
- Peak year
- 20044,471 births
- Best rank
- #96in 2000
- Since 1880
- 128,639people given the name
The story in the numbers
128,639 boys have been named Jake in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2004, with 4,471 births — 0.23% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 190 → 422).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2000, and the 2000s alone account for 31%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 5 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jake | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 972 | |
| 1890s | 892 | |
| 1900s | 989 | |
| 1910s | 2,673 | |
| 1920s | 3,022 | |
| 1930s | 1,943 | |
| 1940s | 1,800 | |
| 1950s | 1,613 | |
| 1960s | 1,387 | |
| 1970s | 3,371 | |
| 1980s | 11,287 | |
| 1990s | 33,116 | |
| 2000s | 39,841 | |
| 2010s | 21,414 | |
| 2020s | 4,319 |
In 2004, its biggest year
Jake was the 98th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2004 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2004.
Names that rose and fell with Jake
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alexpeak 1993
- Jacobpeak 1998
- Alexanderpeak 1993
- Grantpeak 1997
- Davispeak 2007
- Prestonpeak 2007
- Issacpeak 2008
- Isiahpeak 2001
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.