# Yakov (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/yakov/  
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 | 3,353 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,353 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 324, 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 | 108 | 1,503 |
| 2012 | 104 | 1,544 |
| 2013 | 102 | 1,556 |
| 2014 | 90 | 1,700 |
| 2015 | 114 | 1,474 |
| 2016 | 113 | 1,512 |
| 2017 | 113 | 1,498 |
| 2018 | 130 | 1,363 |
| 2019 | 114 | 1,506 |
| 2020 | 121 | 1,436 |
| 2021 | 118 | 1,513 |
| 2022 | 140 | 1,345 |
| 2023 | 123 | 1,472 |
| 2024 | 172 | 1,195 |
| 2025 | 153 | 1,286 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 22 | 1,158 |
| 2012 | 13 | 1,756 |
| 2013 | 15 | 1,539 |
| 2014 | 14 | 1,630 |
| 2015 | 11 | 2,020 |
| 2016 | 12 | 1,903 |
| 2017 | 22 | 1,210 |
| 2018 | 14 | 1,683 |
| 2019 | 11 | 1,986 |
| 2020 | 11 | 1,935 |
| 2021 | 18 | 1,391 |
| 2022 | 13 | 1,781 |
| 2023 | 13 | 1,799 |
| 2024 | 20 | 1,322 |
| 2025 | 13 | 1,897 |

## People named Yakov

- Yakov Yurovsky, Chief executioner of Tsar Nicholas II (1878–1938)
- Yakov Kedmi, former Israeli politician
- Yakov Malkiel, American linguist, etymologist and philologist
- IanisSigma (Sobă), first child of Josef Stalin (1907–1943)
- Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (1895-1982)
- Jakov Gojun, Croatian handball player
- Jascha Horenstein, American conductor
- Jacques Novicow, French-language sociologist, economist and businessperson (1849–1912)

## 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.