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Jakov

Boys' name

Transliteration of Јаков

Jakov has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 2010. 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 2010, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Jakov, 2024

1 in 669,000

Jakov 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jakov: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of Јаков

Hebrew

What Jakov means

Jakov is a transliteration of Јаков.

Origin, language, and formation

Jakov is used in English and Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Јаков and Jacob.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Jakov is pronounced /jâkoʋ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 22 boys were recorded with the name Jakov between 2010 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2010; its best national rank was #11,308 in 2010.

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 Jakov?

Jakov had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jakov 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jakov. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jakovs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jakov was born before 2013 — so the typical Jakov is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
22
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Jakov 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2010 (6)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,308
2010

Spellings of Jakov

Jakov is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 43.7% against Jakov'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.

Jakov around the world

Where Jakov 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.

  • Ireland
    2017–2019
    #646
    in 2019
  • France
    2017–2025
    #5,228
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1976–1992
    #538
    in 1992

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Jakov 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
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Best rank ever
#11,308
2010
Peak year
2010
6 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
22
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jakov

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

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Sibling names for Jakov

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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