Yakov
#1,281 for boys in 2025, 153 births
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 172 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,353since 1953
Yakov over time
Rank among boys' names. Yakov has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #1,281 | 153 |
| 2024 | #1,193 | 172 |
| 2023 | #1,465 | 123 |
| 2022 | #1,341 | 140 |
| 2021 | #1,503 | 118 |
| 2020 | #1,423 | 121 |
| 2019 | #1,494 | 114 |
| 2018 | #1,360 | 130 |
| 2017 | #1,488 | 113 |
| 2016 | #1,501 | 113 |
| 2015 | #1,468 | 114 |
| 2014 | #1,691 | 90 |
| 2013 | #1,546 | 102 |
| 2012 | #1,535 | 104 |
| 2011 | #1,495 | 108 |
| 2010 | #1,752 | 86 |
| 2009 | #1,459 | 114 |
| 2008 | #1,679 | 91 |
| 2007 | #1,669 | 91 |
| 2006 | #1,856 | 73 |
| 2005 | #1,772 | 74 |
| 2004 | #1,911 | 64 |
| 2003 | #1,906 | 61 |
| 2002 | #2,125 | 50 |
| 2001 | #1,912 | 57 |
| 2000 | #2,175 | 46 |
| 1999 | #2,300 | 39 |
| 1998 | #1,833 | 54 |
| 1997 | #1,991 | 45 |
| 1996 | #2,017 | 43 |
| 1995 | #2,253 | 35 |
| 1994 | #1,927 | 43 |
| 1993 | #2,295 | 33 |
| 1992 | #1,844 | 44 |
| 1991 | #2,019 | 37 |
| 1990 | #2,865 | 22 |
| 1989 | #2,545 | 25 |
| 1988 | #2,509 | 23 |
| 1987 | #2,272 | 25 |
| 1986 | #2,226 | 25 |
| 1985 | #2,226 | 24 |
| 1984 | #2,529 | 19 |
| 1983 | #3,230 | 13 |
| 1982 | #2,972 | 15 |
| 1981 | #2,569 | 18 |
| 1980 | #2,617 | 18 |
| 1979 | #3,168 | 13 |
| 1978 | #2,929 | 14 |
| 1977 | #3,037 | 13 |
| 1976 | #3,724 | 9 |
| 1975 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #2,946 | 12 |
| 1973 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #3,344 | 9 |
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| 1970 | #3,282 | 9 |
| 1969 | #3,595 | 7 |
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| 1963 | #3,646 | 6 |
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| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #3,988 | 5 |
| 1958 | #3,033 | 8 |
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| 1953 | #3,798 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yakov! It came in at #3,798, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1957, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Yakov is popular in 2014
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#291 · 1 in 1,533
- New Jersey#542 · 1 in 3,495
Best ever in a state: #135 in New York, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #291 | 67 | 1 in 1,533 |
| New Jersey | #542 | 12 | 1 in 3,495 |
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See more about Yakov
- 88 spots since 2024 (#1,193 → #1,281)
- 142 spots since 2020 (#1,423 → #1,281)
- 187 spots since 2015 (#1,468 → #1,281)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 2024 at #1,193 (172 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,017 boys born in 2024 were named Yakov (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,164 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 32.0% of all boys named Yakov (1,074) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 18 | #3,033 (1958) | #3,606 |
| 1960s | 18 | #3,595 (1969) | #3,760 |
| 1970s | 95 | #2,929 (1978) | #3,434 |
| 1980s | 205 | #2,226 (1986) | #2,570 |
| 1990s | 395 | #1,833 (1998) | #2,134 |
| 2000s | 721 | #1,459 (2009) | #1,846 |
| 2010s | 1,074 | #1,360 (2018) | #1,533 |
| 2020s | 827 | #1,193 (2024) | #1,368 |
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.
Yakov in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 21,343 of them was named Yakov, which outranked 88.0% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,679Kollin91
- #1,679Nathen91
- #1,679Osiris91
- #1,691Yakov90
- #1,691Braxten90
- #1,691Cristofer90
- #1,691Drayden90
- #1,701Ambrose89
- #1,701Arion89
- #1,701Donnell89
Tied with 9 names at #1,691; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.