The name Jacob for boys in Scotland

This page shows the Jacob (boys) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1974 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Jacob was recorded as a first name for boys in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Jacob's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for boys that year.

The record for Jacob for boys sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Jacob appears in 47 of them, from 1974 to 2025, with 4,434 babies in total. Its largest single year was 2016, when the table records 287 babies given the name, at rank 11 among all first names for boys that year.

Figures cover every year from 1974 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Jacob for boys are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.