Iakovos
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/iˈɑkoʊvoʊs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Iakovos is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- GRGreece≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 88Kas Jakub
- CZCzechia1 in 50as Jakub
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 Iakovos 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
- 160 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
433,698 named Jakub, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jakub in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, NO Norway and 1 more and Ιακωβος in GR Greece.
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 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Iakovos 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 | — | 433,698as Jakub | 1 in 88 | 434K | Jakub | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 216,026as Jakub | 1 in 50 | 216K | Jakub | 1 |
| US United States | — | 3,795as Jakub | 1 in 88K | 3.8K | Jakub | 70 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,627as Jakub | 1 in 3.4K | 4.8K | Jakub | 9 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,514as Jakub | 1 in 6.7K | 1.5K | Iakovos | 8 |
| CY Cyprus | #746 | 1,418as Ιακωβος | 1 in 893 | 1.4K | Iakovos | 42 |
| IS Iceland | — | 587as Jakub | 1 in 598 | 587 | — | — |
| GR Greece | #862 | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 38 | Ιακωβος | 81 |
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; 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; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jakobb. 1ILnot in their usual nameone of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus
- Iakovos I of Cyprusb. 1334CYKing of Cyprus and Armenia
- Iakovos Tombazisb. 1782GRGreek admiral
- Patriarch Iakovos of Alexandriab. 1803GRGreek Patriarch of Alexandria 1861-1865
- Jacques Stroumsab. 1913GRnot in their usual nameGreek Jewish Holocaust survivor (1913-2010)
- Saint Iakovos Tsalikisb. 1920GRGreek Eastern Orthodox saint
- Iakovos Kambanellisb. 1921GRGreek writer and film director (1921-2011)
- Theoliptosb. 1957TRnot in their usual nameGreek theologian and Metropolitan at Ecumenical Patriarchate (1957–2026)
- Iakovos Kolanianb. 1960GRGreek classical guitarist
- Iakovos Vroutsisfilm producer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #27,724 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 10 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #25,956 |
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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
- What are other forms of the name Iakovos?
- In the etymology graph, James, Jaime and Jacob are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Iakovos?
- A machine transcription gives /iˈɑkoʊvoʊs/ (IPA) for Greek.
- Is Iakovos a male or female name?
- Iakovos 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 Iakovos have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 434 thousand people named Jakub, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Iakovos?
- In Poland, the national register counted 433,698 people named Jakub in 2026, about 1 in 88 residents.
- How common is Iakovos compared with other names?
- In Cyprus, Iakovos is the 746th most common given name of 8,840 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Iakovos?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iakovosThe 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, “Iakovos” — the 746th most common given name in Cyprus. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.