Iyov
surname · Latin script
Iyov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country. Iyov is also written איוב in Hebrew.
- ILIsrael1 in 2.8Kas איוב(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 16Kas Ayoub
- NONorway1 in 28Kas Ayoub
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Iyov itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
3,095 named איוב, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, as איוב
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Iyov in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)Locally spelled איוב in IL Israel, US United States and Ayub in IN India.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Iyov is found
(measured from records)Iyov 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #297 | 3,095as איוב | 1 in 2.8K | 3.1K | איוב | 23 |
| US United States | — | 3,041as Ayoub | 1 in 109K | 3.7K | איוב | 10 |
| BR Brazil | — | 899as Ayub | 1 in 236K | 899 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 639as Ayoub | 1 in 16K | 651 | — | 1 |
| IN India | — | 568as Ayub | 1 in 2.3M | 568 | Ayub | 5 |
| NO Norway | — | 198as Ayoub | 1 in 28K | 760 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 150as Ayoub | 1 in 39K | 199 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 130as Ayoub | 1 in 65K | 130 | — | 1 |
3,095 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Iyov?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named איוב, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Brazil, Sweden and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Iyov most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Iyov itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Israel's: the national register counts about 1 in 2.8 thousand people named איוב.
- How common is the name Iyov?
- In Israel, the national register counted 3,095 people named איוב in 2017, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Iyov compared with other names?
- In Israel, Iyov is the 297th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Iyov?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iyovThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Iyov” — ranked 384th in Israel (CBS Israel, 2017). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.