Yakovlev
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈjɑkəvɫɛv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yakovlev is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 66th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 834K(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 1.4Kas Яковлев
- EEEstonia1 in 2.5Kas Jakovlev
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 Yakovlev 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #975 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- 1 in 119K (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 named Яковлев, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Яковлев in RU Russia, BY Belarus, EE Estonia and 1 more, Jakovlev in PL Poland, MD Moldova and Яковлєв in UA Ukraine.
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 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yakovlev 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #66 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | Яковлев | 173 |
| UA Ukraine | #371 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Яковлєв | 56 |
| BY Belarus | #124 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Яковлев | 24 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Яковлев | 9 |
| EE Estonia | #17 | 484as Jakovlev | 1 in 2.5K | 484 | Яковлев | 16 |
| MD Moldova | #339 | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Jakovlev | 5 |
| US United States | — | 399 | 1 in 834K | 399 | Yakovlev | 147 |
| PL Poland | — | 321 | 1 in 119K | 321 | Jakovlev | 4 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Postnik Yakovlevb. 150016th century Russian architect
- Alexander Stepanovich Yakovlevb. 1886RURussian/Soviet author (1886-1953)
- Alexandre Iacovleffb. 1887FRnot in their usual nameRussian painter (1887-1938)
- Yakov Yakovlevb. 1896BYSoviet politician (1896-1938)
- Alexandr Yakovlevb. 1906RUSoviet aeronautical engineer, aircraft designer and founder of the Yakovlev Design Bureau (1906–1989)
- Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlevb. 1923RUSoviet diplomat (1923-2005)
- Yury Yakovlevb. 1928RUSoviet and Russian actor (1928–2013)
- Yegor Yakovlevb. 1930RURussian journalist (1930-2005)
- Vladimir Anatolyevich Yakovlevb. 1944RUGovernor of Saint Petersburg
- Pavel Vladimirovich Yakovlevb. 1991RURussian footballer
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 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 399 | #52,037 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 373 | #58,695 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 321 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 321 | #10,169 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 258 | #70,679 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Yakovlev?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈjɑkəvɫɛv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Yakovlev have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 101 thousand people named Яковлев in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Yakovlev most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yakovlev is densest in Poland — about 1 in 119 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Yakovlev?
- In the United States, the national register counted 399 people named Yakovlev in 2010, about 1 in 834 thousand residents.
- How common is Yakovlev compared with other names?
- In Russia, Yakovlev is the 66th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yakovlev?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yakovlevThe 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, “Yakovlev” — the 66th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.