# Iago (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/iago/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | “james”, “jacob”, “he will/shall heel”, “heel” |
| Pronunciation | /iˈɑɡoʊ/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 96 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 96 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 216, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Welsh, Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician Iago, from Latin Iācōbus (“James”), from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (ya‘ăqṓḇ, “Jacob”, literally “he will/shall heel”), from עָקֵב (‘āqḗḇ, “heel”) and the Biblical account of the patriarch Jacob's birth in Genesis 25:26. Doublet of Yago, Jago, James, Jacob, Jacques, and Santiago.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | 11,545 |
| 2005 | 5 | 12,103 |
| 2007 | 5 | 13,069 |
| 2008 | 6 | 11,588 |
| 2010 | 6 | 11,258 |
| 2011 | 5 | 13,032 |
| 2013 | 9 | 8,359 |
| 2014 | 6 | 11,239 |
| 2015 | 5 | 12,809 |
| 2020 | 5 | 12,794 |
| 2021 | 5 | 12,844 |
| 2022 | 10 | 7,978 |
| 2023 | 7 | 10,132 |
| 2024 | 6 | 11,452 |
| 2025 | 5 | 12,732 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | 3,300 |
| 2012 | 7 | 2,721 |
| 2013 | 12 | 1,796 |
| 2014 | 8 | 2,459 |
| 2015 | 15 | 1,586 |
| 2016 | 10 | 2,175 |
| 2017 | 14 | 1,703 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |
| 2019 | 11 | 1,986 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,404 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,017 |
| 2022 | 13 | 1,781 |
| 2023 | 18 | 1,407 |
| 2024 | 14 | 1,758 |
| 2025 | 16 | 1,613 |

## People named Iago

- Iago, Brazilian association football player
- Iago Santos, Brazilian footballer
- Iago Teodoro, Brazilian footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.