Yakow
surname · Latin script
Meaning: An animal that is a hybrid of yak and cow (domestic cattle) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Yakow is a surname 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. Yakow is also written יעקב in Hebrew, Яков in Cyrillic and იაკოვ in Georgian.
- 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 Yakow 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
Yakow in other scripts: Hebrew, Cyrillic, Latin and 2 more
(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
(measured from records)An animal that is a hybrid of yak and cow (domestic cattle).
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yakow 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jakov Basinb. 1939BYSoviet journalist
- Yakov Kazakb. 1985BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian footballer
- Yakau Zenkob. 2000BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian figure skater
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yakow mean, and where does it come from?
- An animal that is a hybrid of yak and cow (domestic cattle). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people named Yakow?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 806 thousand people named Jacob, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Israel, Russia, Denmark and Ukraine; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Yakow?
- In the United States, the national register counted 805,730 people named Jacob in 2020, about 1 in 413 residents.
- How common is Yakow compared with other names?
- In Israel, Yakow is the 7th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yakowThe 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, “Yakow” — ranked 37th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.