Jakov
given name · Croatian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jakov is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Qatar it is the 6th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Russian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Jacob.
- CZCzechia1 in 50◐
- PLPoland1 in 88
- ILIsrael1 in 94
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.5M ●
- #558 ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 236 ●
- 1 in 50 ◐
across 14 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
1.7M records
Official registry-verified
Czechia
Spellings & scripts●
9 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jakub in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, NL Netherlands and 8 more, יעקב in IL Israel, MA Morocco, QA Qatar and 4 more, Яков in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and Yakov in US United States, BR Brazil.
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, equivalent to English Jacob
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 804,558△ | 79K rec. | 1 in 413 | 805K | Yakov | 236 |
| IL Israel | #7 | 714,516 | 962K rec. | — | 10K | יעקב | 86 |
| PL Poland | #25 | 433,692△ | 96K rec. | 1 in 88 | 434K | Jakub | 233 |
| RU Russia | #142 | 396,498 | 135K rec. | — | #61 | Яков | 164 |
| CZ Czechia | #23 | 216,026△ | 23K rec. | 1 in 50 | 216K | Jakub | 191 |
| UA Ukraine | #131 | 164,374 | 170K rec. | — | — | Яків | 43 |
| MA Morocco | #57 | 20,814 | 21K rec. | — | — | יעקב | 5 |
| DK Denmark | — | 20,316△ | 198 rec. | 1 in 289 | 20K | — | 4 |
| SK Slovakia | #21 | 19,254 | 4.1K rec. | — | 366 | Jakub | 131 |
| QA Qatar | #6 | 18,833 | 19K rec. | — | — | יעקב | 1 |
| LB Lebanon | #47 | 15,972 | 17K rec. | — | — | יעקב | 3 |
| IR Iran | — | 15,926 | 17K rec. | — | — | יעקב | 3 |
Roughly 805K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 413). 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●
- Croatian65K89%
- Russian2.3K3%
- German2K3%
- English1.4K2%
- Hungarian3631%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Croatian | 65,493 | 89% |
| Russian | 2,281 | 3% |
| German | 2,009 | 3% |
| English | 1,409 | 2% |
| Hungarian | 363 | 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●
Jakov is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom., russische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In English, A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Јаков (Jakov), equivalent to Jacob
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 | 35 |
| 2000 | 35 |
| 2001 | 34 |
| 2002 | 34 |
| 2003 | 34 |
| 2004 | 35 |
| 2005 | 35 |
| 2006 | 36 |
| 2007 | 35 |
| 2008 | 36 |
| 2009 | 35 |
| 2010 | 35 |
| 2011 | 36 |
| 2012 | 39 |
| 2013 | 40 |
| 2014 | 40 |
| 2015 | 43 |
| 2016 | 44 |
| 2017 | 49 |
| 2018 | 51 |
| 2019 | 64 |
| 2020 | 67 |
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●
- Yakov Protazanovb. 1881RUnot in their usual nameRussian film director and screenwriter (1881–1945)
- Yakov Perelmanb. 1882PLnot in their usual nameRussian science writer (1882–1942)
- Yakov Sverdlovb. 1885RUnot in their usual nameSoviet politician
- Jascha Horensteinb. 1898ATnot in their usual nameAmerican conductor
- Yakov Dzhugashvilib. 1907GEnot in their usual namefirst child of Josef Stalin (1907–1943)
- Yakov Flierb. 1912RUnot in their usual nameRussian musician (1912–1977)
- Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovichb. 1914RUnot in their usual nameSoviet physicist, physical chemist and cosmologist (1914-1987)
- Yakov G. Sinaib. 1935RUnot in their usual nameRussian-American mathematician
- Yakov Eliashbergb. 1946RUnot in their usual nameRussian-American mathematician
- Jakov Milatovićb. 1986MEPresident of Montenegro since 2023
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 50 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 12K | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 7.4K | #145 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 238 | #198 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 212 | #2,063 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 190 | #4,955 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 179 | #1,077 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 162 | #570 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 157 | #43,791 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 147 | #598 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 135 | #611 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 128 | #607 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 119 | #649 |
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 · 202 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jakov?
- We estimate roughly 1.5 million people bear Jakov (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jakov have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 805 thousand people bear Jakov in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled yakov.
- Where is Jakov most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jakov is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 50 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Jakov compared with other names?
- In Qatar, Jakov is the 6th most common given name of 12,656 given names recorded there.
- Is Jakov a male or female name?
- Jakov 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 Jakov mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Jacob
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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, “Jakov” — the 6th most common given name in Qatar. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.