Jakub
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jakub is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 42nd most common given name. In Polish, recorded as a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English James or Jacob.
- CZCzechia1 in 50(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 88
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 283
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 Jakub itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 261 (measured from records)
- 1 in 50 (inferred from the name graph)
433,698 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Якуб in RU Russia.
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)
Czech/Polish: "the supplanter"; one who takes the place of another; biblical name
Sources 1
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Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Jakub is read(measured from records)
Jakub is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Polish58%
- Czech21%
- English6.8%
Czech/Polish: "the supplanter"; one who takes the place of another; biblical name
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- Slovak5.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Jakub in Slovak.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jakub 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #42 | 433,698 | 1 in 88 | 434K | Jakub | 247 |
| CZ Czechia | #13 | 216,026 | 1 in 50 | 216K | Jakub | 201 |
| SK Slovakia | #30 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 283 | 366 | Jakub | 138 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 33K | #301 | Якуб | 119 |
| US United States | — | 3,795 | 1 in 88K | 3.8K | Jakub | 261 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,627 | 1 in 3.4K | 4.8K | Jakub | 48 |
| IS Iceland | — | 587 | 1 in 598 | 587 | — | — |
433,698 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Jakub is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from the personal name Jakub, from Hebrew Jahaqobh (see Jacob).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, männl. Vom., tschechische, slowaki sche und polnische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Polish and Czech form of JACOB . Pet forms: Polish: Kuba. Czech: Jakoubek; Kuba, Kubi ek, Kube .
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Abu Yusufb. 731IQnot in their usual nameArab Muslim Scholar and jurist (died 798)
- Al-Kindib. 801IQnot in their usual nameMuslim Arab philosopher, mathematician and physician (c.801–873)
- Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansurb. 1160MAnot in their usual nameRuler of the Almohad Caliphate from 1184 to 1199
- Yakub Kolasb. 1882BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian writer (1882–1956)
- Mateusz Morawieckib. 1968PLnot in their usual name17th Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
- Jakub Blaszczykowskib. 1985PLPolish association football player
- Jakub Vadlejchb. 1990CZCzech javelin thrower
- Jakub Moderb. 1999PLPolish association football player
- Jakub Kiwiorb. 2000PLPolish footballer (born 2000)
- Jakub Kamińskib. 2002PLPolish association football player (born 2002)
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)
Attested in 76 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 434K | #9 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 431K | #9 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 216K | #20 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 108K | #22 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 4.8K | #656 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.8K | #4,776 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 3.4K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 1.6K | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 587 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 36 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 6 | #9,948 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5 | #4,776 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Jakub come from?
- Czech/Polish: "the supplanter"; one who takes the place of another; biblical name Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Jakub a male or female name?
- Jakub 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.
- In which country does Jakub have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 434 thousand people named Jakub, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jakub.
- Where is Jakub most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jakub is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 50 people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Jakub mean?
- In Polish, a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English James or Jacob
- What are other forms of the name Jakub?
- In the etymology graph, James, Jaime and Jamie are forms of the same name in other languages; Kuba is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Jakub?
- In Poland, the national register counted 433,698 people named Jakub in 2026, about 1 in 88 residents.
- How common is Jakub compared with other names?
- In Poland, Jakub is the 42nd most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
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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, “Jakub” — the 42nd most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.