Yankev
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yankev is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Denmark it is the 14th most common given name.
- DKDenmark1 in 289as Jacob(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 413as Jacob
- SESweden1 in 645as 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 Yankev 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #439 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 643 (measured from records)
- 1 in 289 (inferred from the name graph)
805,730 named Jacob, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark, as Jacob
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jacob in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DK Denmark and 1 more, Jakob in DE Germany, NO Norway, SE Sweden and 1 more and Jacobs in ZA South Africa.
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 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yankev 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 | #188 | 805,730as Jacob | 1 in 413 | 805K | Jacob | 643 |
| NG Nigeria | #214 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Jacob | 110 |
| ZA South Africa | #69 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 885 | — | Jacobs | 163 |
| DE Germany | #241 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | Jakob | 245 |
| GB United Kingdom | #304 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 14K | Jacob | 331 |
| DK Denmark | #14 | 20,316as Jacob | 1 in 289 | 20K | Jacob | 207 |
| SE Sweden | #94 | 15,821as Jakob | 1 in 645 | 16K | Jakob | 145 |
| NO Norway | #165 | 7,769as Jakob | 1 in 704 | 28K | Jakob | 85 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 6,201as Jakob | 1 in 339 | 6.3K | Jakob | 43 |
805,730 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Yankev a male or female name?
- Yankev 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 Yankev 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.
- Where is Yankev most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Yankev itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Denmark's: the national register counts about 1 in 289 people named Jacob.
- How common is the name Yankev?
- In the United States, the national register counted 805,730 people named Jacob in 2020, about 1 in 413 residents.
- How common is Yankev compared with other names?
- In the United States, Yankev is the 188th most common given name of 2,815,431 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/yankevThe 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, “Yankev” — the 188th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.