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“Respelling of Jacobi — supplanter, or holder of the heel” — Hebrew (via Jacobi) origin
Boy's name · #1657 in the US (2025) · 2020s
Jakobi is near its high-water mark: it reached #1181 in 2022 and still ranked #1657 in 2025. About 2,700 boys have carried it since 1993. Together with its spelling variants Jacoby (#1430) and Jacobi (#2318), Jakobi would rank around #853 with about 290 births last year — the newborns split about 44/35/21 across Jacoby, Jakobi, and Jacobi.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 15 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Similar names: Jacoby · Demari · Jacari · Crosby · Zayvion · Jaxtyn
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