Jákob

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jákob is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin Iacob, from Ancient Greek Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿăqōḇ).

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 339(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 354
  • ISIceland1 in 558

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

27,371 people, 2020

Sources
31 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 339 (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jakob in US United States, SE Sweden, SI Slovenia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Jákob: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Jákob
  1. LatinIacob(measured from records)
  2. Ancient GreekἸακώβIakṓb(measured from records)
  3. Hebrewיַעֲקֹבyaʿăqōḇ(measured from records)

From Latin Iacob, from Ancient Greek Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿăqōḇ).

Sources 6

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jákob counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Jákob is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States27,3711 in 12K27KJakob25
DK Denmark16,5631 in 35417K——
SE Sweden15,8211 in 64516KJakob5
NO Norway7,7691 in 70428K—3
SI Slovenia6,2011 in 3396.3KJakob3
IS Iceland6291 in 558629——

27,371 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jákob is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, Brazil, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Jakob, Jākōb, Jakòb, Jakób, Jàkob

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

0500100015002000James the Just, b. 100James the Less, b. 100Ya'ackov Ben-Dov, b. 1882Jacob Talmon, b. 1916Yakov Springer, b. 1921Yaacov Agam, b. 1928Jacob Ziv, b. 1931Yaaqov Medan, b. 1950Ya'akov Katz, b. 1951Yaakov Katz, b. 1979
  • James the Justb. 100ILnot in their usual nameJewish bishop of Jerusalem figure in Early Christianity
  • James the Lessb. 100ILnot in their usual nameChristian saint
  • Ya'ackov Ben-Dovb. 1882ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli photographer
  • Jacob Talmonb. 1916PLnot in their usual namehistorian of Modern Age, political scientist, pedagogue, penman, university teacher (1916-1980)
  • Yakov Springerb. 1921ILnot in their usual nameMunich Massacre victim (1921–1972)
  • Yaacov Agamb. 1928ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli sculptor and experimental artist (1928-2026)
  • Jacob Zivb. 1931ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli computer scientist (1931–2023)
  • Yaaqov Medanb. 1950ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli rabbi
  • Ya'akov Katzb. 1951ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli politician
  • Yaakov Katzb. 1979ILnot in their usual nameAmerican-born Israeli journalist and author

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(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Jákob under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Jákob mean, and where does it come from?
From Latin Iacob, from Ancient Greek Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿăqōḇ). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular… and 4 other sources.
What are other forms of the name Jákob?
In the etymology graph, Jacobo, Yaqoob and Yacoub are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Jákob have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 27 thousand people named Jákob, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jakob.
Where is Jákob most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jákob is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 339 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Jákob?
In the United States, the national register counted 27,371 people named Jákob in 2020, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.

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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%A1kob

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Jákob”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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