Yacov
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Yacov is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Israel it is the 7th most common given name.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 140as יעקב(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 289as Jacob
- SISlovenia1 in 339as Jakob
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 Yacov 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #901 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 227 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 143 (inferred from the name graph)
805,730 named Jacob, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, est., as יעקב
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Jakov in HR Croatia, SI Slovenia, Yakov in US United States, יעקב in IL Israel and Яков 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yacov 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 805,730as Jacob | 1 in 413 | 805K | Yakov | 227 |
| IL Israel | #7 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 143 | 10K | יעקב | 104 |
| RU Russia | #149 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | register #61 | Яков | 179 |
| DK Denmark | — | 20,316as Jacob | 1 in 289 | 20K | — | 4 |
| UA Ukraine | #142 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Яків | 47 |
| HR Croatia | #108 | 7,437as Jakov | 1 in 568 | 12K | Jakov | 105 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 6,201as Jakob | 1 in 339 | 6.3K | Jakov | 6 |
805,730 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling jacob. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 186 | #40,182 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 5 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- Is Yacov a male or female name?
- Yacov is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Yacov have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 806 thousand people named Jacob, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Yacov?
- In the United States, the national register counted 805,730 people named Jacob in 2020, about 1 in 413 residents.
- How common is Yacov compared with other names?
- In Israel, Yacov is the 7th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yacovThe 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, “Yacov” — the 7th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.