Yakov
given name · Russian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yakov 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 Russian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ) Yaakov: männl. Vom., neuhe bräische Form von.
- 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 Jakov in HR Croatia, HU Hungary, SI Slovenia.
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●
) Yaakov: männl. Vom., neuhe bräische Form von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 19 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●
- Russian20K37%
- English16K31%
- Ukrainian5.9K11%
- Hebrew3.5K7%
- Spanish1.9K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | 19,644 | 37% |
| English | 16,228 | 31% |
| Ukrainian | 5,888 | 11% |
| Hebrew | 3,496 | 7% |
| Spanish | 1,943 | 4% |
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●
Yakov is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Jewish: the modern Hebrew form of JACOB . This is also the form of the name in Russian. Variant: Jewish: Yaakov. Pet forms: Jewish: Yankel (Yiddish). Russian: Yasha. Feminine form: Jewish: Yakova .
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 |
|---|---|
| 1953 | 5 |
| 1958 | 8 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1963 | 6 |
| 1969 | 7 |
| 1970 | 9 |
| 1972 | 9 |
| 1973 | 11 |
| 1974 | 12 |
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1976 | 9 |
| 1977 | 13 |
| 1978 | 14 |
| 1979 | 13 |
| 1980 | 18 |
| 1981 | 18 |
| 1982 | 15 |
| 1983 | 13 |
| 1984 | 19 |
| 1985 | 24 |
| 1986 | 25 |
| 1987 | 25 |
| 1988 | 23 |
| 1989 | 25 |
| 1990 | 22 |
| 1991 | 37 |
| 1992 | 44 |
| 1993 | 33 |
| 1994 | 43 |
| 1995 | 35 |
| 1996 | 43 |
| 1997 | 45 |
| 1998 | 54 |
| 1999 | 39 |
| 2000 | 46 |
| 2001 | 57 |
| 2002 | 50 |
| 2003 | 61 |
| 2004 | 64 |
| 2005 | 74 |
| 2006 | 73 |
| 2007 | 91 |
| 2008 | 91 |
| 2009 | 114 |
| 2010 | 86 |
| 2011 | 108 |
| 2012 | 104 |
| 2013 | 102 |
| 2014 | 90 |
| 2015 | 114 |
| 2016 | 113 |
| 2017 | 113 |
| 2018 | 130 |
| 2019 | 114 |
| 2020 | 121 |
| 2021 | 118 |
| 2022 | 140 |
| 2023 | 123 |
| 2024 | 172 |
| 2025 | 153 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 61 years between 1953–2025. 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 Yurovskyb. 1878RUChief executioner of Tsar Nicholas II (1878–1938)
- Yakov Protazanovb. 1881RURussian film director and screenwriter (1881–1945)
- Yakov Perelmanb. 1882PLRussian science writer (1882–1942)
- Yakov Sverdlovb. 1885RUSoviet politician
- Jascha Horensteinb. 1898ATnot in their usual nameAmerican conductor
- Yakov Dzhugashvilib. 1907GEfirst child of Josef Stalin (1907–1943)
- Yakov Flierb. 1912RURussian musician (1912–1977)
- Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovichb. 1914RUSoviet physicist, physical chemist and cosmologist (1914-1987)
- Yakov G. Sinaib. 1935RURussian-American mathematician
- Yakov Eliashbergb. 1946RURussian-American mathematician
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 39 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 148 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Yakov?
- We estimate roughly 1.5 million people bear Yakov (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Yakov have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 805 thousand people bear Yakov in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled yakov.
- Where is Yakov most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yakov is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 50 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Yakov compared with other names?
- In Qatar, Yakov is the 6th most common given name of 12,656 given names recorded there.
- Is Yakov a male or female name?
- Yakov 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 Yakov mean?
- Recorded meaning: ) Yaakov: männl. Vom., neuhe bräische Form von
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yakov” — the 6th most common given name in Qatar. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.