Jaakko
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jaakko is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 43rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Biblical Hebrew.
- FIFinland1 in 155◐
- SESweden1 in 15K
- EEEstonia1 in 27K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈37K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 120 ●
- 1 in 155 ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
5.0K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Яакко in RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
a male given name from Biblical Hebrew
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | #43 | 35,863△ | 4.1K rec. | 1 in 155 | 64K | Jaakko | 120 |
| SE Sweden | — | 675△ | 54 rec. | 1 in 15K | 675 | Jaakko | 23 |
| US United States | — | 587 | 500 rec. | — | — | Jaakko | 87 |
| EE Estonia | — | 155 | 77 rec. | — | 6 | Jaakko | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 62 | 38 rec. | — | — | Jaakko | 23 |
| NO Norway | — | 45 | 35 rec. | — | 42 | Jaakko | 12 |
| ES Spain | — | 40 | 30 rec. | — | — | Jaakko | 14 |
| BR Brazil | — | 32 | 6 rec. | — | — | Jaakko | 11 |
| CA Canada | — | 21 | 19 rec. | — | 1 | Jaakko | 8 |
| AR Argentina | — | 18 | 18 rec. | — | — | Jaakko | 9 |
| RU Russia | — | 16 | 27 rec. | — | — | Яакко | 9 |
| TH Thailand | — | 14 | 11 rec. | — | — | Jaakko | 7 |
Roughly 36K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 155). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Finnish236K97%
- English2K1%
- Chinese1.6K1%
- Portuguese8591%
- German6461%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 236,039 | 97% |
| English | 1,959 | 1% |
| Chinese | 1,643 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 859 | 1% |
| German | 646 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Jaakko is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Se Jakob.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In izh, a male given name, equivalent to English Jacob or James
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Finnish form of JACOB .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 441 |
| 2000 | 431 |
| 2001 | 421 |
| 2002 | 416 |
| 2003 | 401 |
| 2004 | 398 |
| 2005 | 378 |
| 2006 | 369 |
| 2007 | 370 |
| 2008 | 365 |
| 2009 | 358 |
| 2010 | 349 |
| 2011 | 346 |
| 2012 | 332 |
| 2013 | 320 |
| 2014 | 313 |
| 2015 | 306 |
| 2016 | 295 |
| 2017 | 287 |
| 2018 | 277 |
| 2019 | 272 |
| 2020 | 260 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Jaakko Hintikkab. 1929FIFinnish philosopher and logician
- Jaakko Pakkasvirtab. 1934FIFinnish film director, actor and screenwriter (1934–2018)
- Kalevi J. Holstib. 1935CAnot in their usual nameFinnish-Canadian political scientist
- Pekka Puskab. 1945FInot in their usual nameFinnish physician and politician
- Jorma Ollilab. 1950FInot in their usual nameFinnish businessman
- Tomi Poikolainenb. 1961FInot in their usual nameFinnish archer and firefighter
- Jaakko Mäntyjärvib. 1963FIFinnish composer and translator
- Jaakko Tallusb. 1981FIFinnish Nordic combined skier
- Niko Mikkolab. 1996FInot in their usual nameFinnish ice hockey player (born 1996)
- Jaakko Hänninenb. 1997FIFinnish cyclist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 64K | #43 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 36K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 675 | #2,226 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 441 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 431 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 421 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 416 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 401 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 398 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 378 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 370 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 369 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 38 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jaakko?
- We estimate roughly 37 thousand people bear Jaakko (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jaakko have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 36 thousand people bear Jaakko in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled jaakko.
- Where is Jaakko most common?
- Jaakko is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 155 people carrying it.
- How common is Jaakko compared with other names?
- In Finland, Jaakko is the 43rd most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
- Is Jaakko a male or female name?
- Jaakko is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Jaakko mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name from Biblical Hebrew
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jaakko” — the 43rd most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.