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Hakob

Boys' name

Transliteration of Հակոբ

Hakob has been given to 20 babies in the U.S. since 2000. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2012, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Hakob, 2012

1 in 457,000

Hakob over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hakob: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of Հակոբ

Spanish

What Hakob means

Hakob is a transliteration of Հակոբ.

Origin, language, and formation

Hakob is used in English and Ilocano. Its origins include Spanish.

Hakob comes through Armenian Հակոբ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Հակոբ and Jacob.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 20 boys were recorded with the name Hakob between 2000 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2012; its best national rank was #8,505 in 2000.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hakob?

Hakob had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 457,000
8 of 3,657,590 births
Among boys only
1 in 237,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
316,907 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hakob sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 316,907 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hakob. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hakobs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hakob was born before 2010 — so the typical Hakob is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
65.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
20
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Choose a decade

2010s — 65.0% of all recorded uses (13).

Is Hakob rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2012 (8)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#8,505
2000

Spellings of Hakob

Hakob is not the most common spelling — Jacob is, with 94.3% against Hakob's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Hakob is used

Across 1910–2025, Hakob was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 917,511 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hakob has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hakob around the world

Where Hakob ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2010–2021
    #4,389
    in 2021

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Hakob by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,505
2000
Peak year
2012
8 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
20
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hakob

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Hakob

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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