Name meaning & stats
Yakov
Yakov. 3,353 US babies since 1940, peak 2024.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
In US birth records
Peak year: 2024
3,353 US babies were named Yakov between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Yakov (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 3 Yaakovs spell it Yakov
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2024)