# Yaakov (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/yaakov/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,991 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,991 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 200, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 153 | 1,169 |
| 2012 | 155 | 1,179 |
| 2013 | 178 | 1,061 |
| 2014 | 160 | 1,173 |
| 2015 | 207 | 996 |
| 2016 | 159 | 1,197 |
| 2017 | 189 | 1,058 |
| 2018 | 186 | 1,073 |
| 2019 | 160 | 1,201 |
| 2020 | 180 | 1,105 |
| 2021 | 237 | 953 |
| 2022 | 205 | 1,071 |
| 2023 | 234 | 963 |
| 2024 | 233 | 975 |
| 2025 | 218 | 1,025 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 2,194 |
| 2012 | 7 | 2,721 |
| 2013 | 6 | 2,954 |
| 2014 | 5 | 3,362 |
| 2015 | 11 | 2,020 |
| 2016 | 8 | 2,556 |
| 2017 | 12 | 1,923 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,011 |
| 2019 | 6 | 3,013 |
| 2020 | 6 | 2,960 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,451 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3,048 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,546 |
| 2024 | 8 | 2,671 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Yaakov

- Yaakov Shabtai, former commander of Israel Police
- Yaakov Bleich, American rabbi
- Yaakov Perlow, American rabbi (1930-2020)
- Jonathan Sacks, British rabbi (1948–2020), Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwea

## 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.