Jake

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jake is a given name, most frequently recorded in Australia. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Variant of Jack, of Middle English origin, which has now come back into fashion as an independent given name.

rarermore common
  • IEIreland1 in 779◐
  • AUAustralia1 in 795
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 2.2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈134K ●

across 9 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
537 ●

726K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.5K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

JakeLatin · English●943K records
ג'ייקHebrew · Hebrew●189 records
ᲯაკეGeorgian · Georgian●2 records
ጃክEthiopic · Amharic●0 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Variant of Jack, of Middle English origin, which has now come back into fashion as an independent given name. It is also sometimes used as a short form of pJacob.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jake is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AU Australia#148145,76172K rec.—103Jake271
US United States#586132,247526K rec.1 in 2.5K132KJake537
GB United Kingdom#31795,57349K rec.—27Jake257
PH Philippines#46846,81533K rec.——Jake138
CA Canada#42328,06014K rec.—28Jake209
IE Ireland#11011,9771.4K rec.—166Jake90
DE Germany—2,3302.1K rec.——Jake115
RU Russia—2,2332.2K rec.——Jake55
NZ New Zealand#2341,9481.2K rec.—27Jake99
IT Italy—1,5791.6K rec.—3Jake65
IN India—1,505869 rec.—6Jake82
JP Japan—910792 rec.——Jake54

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English943K82%
  • Spanish70K6%
  • 18K2%
  • Portuguese17K1%
  • French9.1K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English942,73882%
Spanish69,5826%
18,4362%
Portuguese16,7321%
French9,1211%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jake is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name121K records spelled Jake8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, France

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Jakë, Jâkë

  • Polish given name8.6K records spelled Jake24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, United Kingdom, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Джейк, Яке, Jakę, Якё, Джеик

  • Finnish given name4.1K records spelled Jake4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, United Kingdom, Hungary

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Jãkè

  • Thai given name2.6K records spelled Jake4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Also written Jäkë, Jäkê, Jåkë

  • Korean given name1.5K records spelled Jake7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Korea, United Kingdom, Philippines

    Also written Jak, 자케, Jàk, Jâk, 제이크

  • a separate given name1.1K records spelled Jake13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, Canada

    Also written Jåkë, Jāke, Jâkè, Jåke, Jākē

64 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Jake is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Possibly a respelling of French Jacques.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, Adequate; satisfactory; acceptable.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Finnish, a diminutive of the male given name Jaakko

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, broken ice, icefloe

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Basque, Fuerte, vigoroso. Anke ziola nik bino bi urte oboro, zegon anixko jake adin zionaren . 'Muy firme' . Mdg 127.

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02K4K6K1900195020004.5K · 2004

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Jake in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188096
188192
188297
188396
188492
1885100
188695
188790
1888107
1889107
189072
189178
1892116
189366
189486
189591
189688
1897102
1898117
189976
1900121
190179
1902102
190393
190478
190592
190683
1907117
1908115
1909109
1910148
1911110
1912187
1913227
1914274
1915355
1916362
1917299
1918377
1919334
1920362
1921360
1922332
1923330
1924306
1925306
1926266
1927272
1928243
1929245
1930221
1931214
1932205
1933199
1934192
1935179
1936194
1937172
1938183
1939184
1940177
1941190
1942198
1943159
1944172
1945165
1946193
1947187
1948174
1949185
1950192
1951179
1952174
1953163
1954169
1955141
1956137
1957154
1958157
1959147
1960155
1961166
1962147
1963154
1964134
1965144
1966121
1967104
1968124
1969138
1970153
1971176
1972266
1973314
1974309
1975334
1976427
1977445
1978449
1979495
1980567
1981595
1982670
1983771
1984746
19851,071
19861,553
19871,639
19881,706
19891,964
19902,227
19912,772
19922,929
19933,197
19943,468
19953,509
19963,449
19973,840
19983,788
19993,936
20004,091
20013,838
20023,792
20034,406
20044,473
20054,153
20064,028
20073,882
20083,795
20093,386
20103,440
20113,110
20122,679
20132,450
20142,171
20151,922
20161,586
20171,503
20181,379
20191,175
20201,036
2021969
2022790
2023782
2024748
2025682

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Jake LaMotta, b. 1922Jake Kasdan, b. 1974Jake Johnson, b. 1978Jake Hoffman, b. 1981Jake Lacy, b. 1985Jake McDorman, b. 1986Jake Abel, b. 1987Jake Lloyd, b. 1989Jake Thomas, b. 1990Jake Paul, b. 1997

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 86 sources across 45 countries.

Official registers attesting Jake
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020132K#426
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—1.2K#1,895
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020958#26,789
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010948#25,924
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000840#27,105
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025682—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—476#2,131
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020363#426
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—327—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—323#3,734
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2024250—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020186—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 918 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jake?
We estimate roughly 134 thousand people bear Jake (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Jake have the most bearers?
Jake is most frequently recorded in Australia, where it is most often spelled jake.
How common is Jake compared with other names?
In Australia, Jake is the 148th most common given name of 197,734 given names recorded there.
Is Jake a male or female name?
Jake is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Jake mean?
Recorded meaning: Variant of Jack, of Middle English origin, which has now come back into fashion as an independent given name.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jake” — the 148th most common given name in Australia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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