How Many People Are Named Yakov?
people named Yakov are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 103,949 people in the US has this name
Based on 3,353 babies named Yakov in Social Security records from 1953 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
172 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Russian and Bulgarian form of JACOB (or JAMES), and a Hebrew variant transcription of YAAKOV.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Yakov in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Yakov alive today is about 16 years old, and 84% are under 30. Half of them were between 5 and 23 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Yakov first appears in the records in 1953 and was given most often in 2024, to 172 babies. In 2025, 153 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1953 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Yakov has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,195, in 2024. In 2025 it ranked #1,286.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,286 |
| Best rank | #1,195 (2024) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,523 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Yakov alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Yakov were born in New York than in any other state: about 2,559 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Yakov was given 14.1 times as often in New York and 4.1 times in New Jersey.
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