Yaakov
#1,024 for boys in 2025, 218 births
- Peak · boys
- 1986 · 114 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,991since 1948
Yaakov over time
Rank among boys' names. Yaakov has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,024 | 218 |
| 2024 | #969 | 233 |
| 2023 | #961 | 234 |
| 2022 | #1,069 | 205 |
| 2021 | #951 | 237 |
| 2020 | #1,101 | 180 |
| 2019 | #1,193 | 160 |
| 2018 | #1,070 | 186 |
| 2017 | #1,056 | 189 |
| 2016 | #1,194 | 159 |
| 2015 | #993 | 207 |
| 2014 | #1,170 | 160 |
| 2013 | #1,058 | 178 |
| 2012 | #1,172 | 155 |
| 2011 | #1,167 | 153 |
| 2010 | #1,059 | 181 |
| 2009 | #1,324 | 131 |
| 2008 | #1,380 | 123 |
| 2007 | #1,277 | 137 |
| 2006 | #1,239 | 135 |
| 2005 | #1,282 | 120 |
| 2004 | #1,335 | 110 |
| 2003 | #1,269 | 112 |
| 2002 | #1,268 | 107 |
| 2001 | #1,277 | 104 |
| 2000 | #1,382 | 91 |
| 1999 | #1,203 | 106 |
| 1998 | #1,585 | 66 |
| 1997 | #1,234 | 94 |
| 1996 | #1,599 | 61 |
| 1995 | #1,327 | 78 |
| 1994 | #1,322 | 78 |
| 1993 | #1,601 | 56 |
| 1992 | #1,340 | 71 |
| 1991 | #1,245 | 80 |
| 1990 | #1,420 | 62 |
| 1989 | #1,243 | 75 |
| 1988 | #1,215 | 70 |
| 1987 | #974 | 94 |
| 1986 | #848 | 114 |
| 1985 | #1,268 | 57 |
| 1984 | #1,240 | 55 |
| 1983 | #1,562 | 38 |
| 1982 | #1,700 | 34 |
| 1981 | #1,373 | 47 |
| 1980 | #1,524 | 40 |
| 1979 | #1,570 | 37 |
| 1978 | #1,913 | 26 |
| 1977 | #1,546 | 36 |
| 1976 | #1,781 | 28 |
| 1975 | #2,001 | 23 |
| 1974 | #1,934 | 23 |
| 1973 | #1,696 | 27 |
| 1972 | #2,020 | 20 |
| 1971 | #1,987 | 21 |
| 1970 | #2,058 | 19 |
| 1969 | #1,861 | 20 |
| 1968 | #2,445 | 12 |
| 1967 | #2,242 | 13 |
| 1966 | #2,627 | 10 |
| 1965 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1964 | #4,039 | 5 |
| 1963 | #4,048 | 5 |
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| 1961 | #2,900 | 9 |
| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #3,037 | 8 |
| 1958 | #2,818 | 9 |
| 1957 | #3,552 | 6 |
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| 1955 | #2,964 | 8 |
| 1954 | #2,743 | 9 |
| 1953 | #2,905 | 8 |
| 1952 | #3,373 | 6 |
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| 1950 | #3,681 | 5 |
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| 1948 | #3,316 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yaakov! It came in at #3,316, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1951, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Yaakov is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#377 · 1 in 3,828
Best ever in a state: #83 in New Jersey, 2025.
Show every state
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| New York | #377 | 29 | 1 in 3,828 |
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See more about Yaakov
- 55 spots since 2024 (#969 → #1,024)
- 77 spots since 2020 (#1,101 → #1,024)
- 31 spots since 2015 (#993 → #1,024)
- Biggest jump: 420 spots in 1986 (#1,268 → #848)
- Biggest drop: 241 spots in 1988 (#974 → #1,215)
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1986 at #848 (114 births)
- Births halved by 1993, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1986–1987
- Highest: 1 in 7,310 boys born in 2023 were named Yaakov (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,835 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #848 in 1986, was only 1 in 16,154 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.8% of all boys named Yaakov (1,728) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 6 | #3,316 (1948) | #3,316 |
| 1950s | 59 | #2,743 (1954) | #3,134 |
| 1960s | 85 | #1,861 (1969) | #3,082 |
| 1970s | 260 | #1,546 (1977) | #1,851 |
| 1980s | 624 | #848 (1986) | #1,295 |
| 1990s | 752 | #1,203 (1999) | #1,388 |
| 2000s | 1,170 | #1,239 (2006) | #1,303 |
| 2010s | 1,728 | #993 (2015) | #1,113 |
| 2020s | 1,307 | #951 (2021) | #1,013 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Yaakov in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 46,528 of them was named Yaakov, which outranked 77.8% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,532Yehuda38
- #1,532Yusef38
- #1,532Zeke38
- #1,570Yaakov37
- #1,570Ambrose37
- #1,570Blaise37
- #1,570Blas37
- #1,598Alain36
- #1,598April36
- #1,598Arik36
Tied with 27 names at #1,570; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.