Jake is of English origin and its meaning is ‘supplanter’. It is a shortened form of the name Jacob, which is derived from the Hebrew name Yaʿaqōḇ.
Jake is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Jake isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Jake ranks 229. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 9 were named Jake. In the entire USA, approximately 120,530 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Jake. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
Jake is of English origin and its meaning is ‘supplanter’. It is a shortened form of the name Jacob, which is derived from the Hebrew name Yaʿaqōḇ.
A young male... wild turkey is called jake. A jake has a very short beard and his tail fan has longer feathers in the middle. The adult male's tail fan feathers will be all the same length.
If we dig really deep into our statistics, we find that there are very few boys' names that have been consistently popular for so long that they have been given to newborns in every single year since the beginning of our records in 1880. In fact, there are only 442 boys' names that appear in our statistics in every single year, and Jake is one of those very special classics. At the same time, Jake has never been more popular than it is in this century - in 2000 the name even made it to rank #94 of the most popular boys' names, easily landing in the top 100 of our SmartGenius first name statistics.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jake was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
...because: In 2022, 784 boys were born and given the name Jake by their parents. That puts Jake at #392 on our list of most popular boys' names. It was much less popular in 1967 - only 104 parents chose this name for their newborn son and it ranked 664 on the popularity scale of all boys' names.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Jake occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Jake is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Jake is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 120,512 men and boys of all generations bear the name Jake – that is one in 1,385. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Nevada, where one in 400 men and boys is called Jake, while it is particularly rare in West Virginia, where you have to ask an average of 5,194 men for their name to get Jake as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With four letters, the name Jake is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Jake and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jake, you can simply say:
Joker
Apple
Koala
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jake
Jake
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
A
K
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
A
K
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jake sounds like this:
