Meaning not yet researched.
Yaakov: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 218 in 2025. Its best rank was #853 in 1986.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #853 in 1986; #1,025 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yaakov in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,025 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1986, at #853.
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Yaakov: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 218 boys in 2025. Peak: #853 in 1986 · most boys in one year: 237 (2021).
In 2025, 218 US boys were named Yaakov, making it the 1,025th most common boys’ name of the year, down 50 places from #975 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 233 boys named Yaakov in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #853, reached in 1986. The most boys given the name in a single year was 237, in 2021. For comparison, it was #996 in 2015 and #4,188 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yaakov in 74 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 6 babies. In all, 5,991 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,728 babies named Yaakov.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,001 US boys were named Yaakov; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 237. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,835 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yaakov ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #84 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Yakov (3,353 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Yaacov, Yacov and Yackov are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Yaacov (127), Yacov (29), Yackov (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Yaakov in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 113 | #84 | #124 |
| New York | 67 | #281 | #245 |
| Maryland | 10 | #513 | #578 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,616 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 218 | #1,025 |
| 2024 | — | — | 233 | #975 |
| 2023 | — | — | 234 | #963 |
| 2022 | — | — | 205 | #1,071 |
| 2021 | — | — | 237 | #953 |
| 2020 | — | — | 180 | #1,105 |
| 2019 | — | — | 160 | #1,201 |
| 2018 | — | — | 186 | #1,073 |
| 2017 | — | — | 189 | #1,058 |
| 2016 | — | — | 159 | #1,197 |
| 2015 | — | — | 207 | #996 |
| 2014 | — | — | 160 | #1,173 |
| 2013 | — | — | 178 | #1,061 |
| 2012 | — | — | 155 | #1,179 |
| 2011 | — | — | 153 | #1,169 |
| 2010 | — | — | 181 | #1,067 |
| 2009 | — | — | 131 | #1,330 |
| 2008 | — | — | 123 | #1,388 |
| 2007 | — | — | 137 | #1,282 |
| 2006 | — | — | 135 | #1,248 |
| 2005 | — | — | 120 | #1,288 |
| 2004 | — | — | 110 | #1,342 |
| 2003 | — | — | 112 | #1,276 |
| 2002 | — | — | 107 | #1,280 |
| 2001 | — | — | 104 | #1,282 |
| 2000 | — | — | 91 | #1,389 |
| 1999 | — | — | 106 | #1,210 |
| 1998 | — | — | 66 | #1,602 |
| 1997 | — | — | 94 | #1,240 |
| 1996 | — | — | 61 | #1,614 |
| 1995 | — | — | 78 | #1,337 |
| 1994 | — | — | 78 | #1,331 |
| 1993 | — | — | 56 | #1,619 |
| 1992 | — | — | 71 | #1,351 |
| 1991 | — | — | 80 | #1,253 |
| 1990 | — | — | 62 | #1,434 |
| 1989 | — | — | 75 | #1,257 |
| 1988 | — | — | 70 | #1,222 |
| 1987 | — | — | 94 | #981 |
| 1986 | — | — | 114 | #853 |
| 1985 | — | — | 57 | #1,280 |
| 1984 | — | — | 55 | #1,250 |
| 1983 | — | — | 38 | #1,591 |
| 1982 | — | — | 34 | #1,733 |
| 1981 | — | — | 47 | #1,395 |
| 1980 | — | — | 40 | #1,544 |
| 1979 | — | — | 37 | #1,595 |
| 1978 | — | — | 26 | #1,964 |
| 1977 | — | — | 36 | #1,569 |
| 1976 | — | — | 28 | #1,827 |
| 1975 | — | — | 23 | #2,064 |
| 1974 | — | — | 23 | #1,980 |
| 1973 | — | — | 27 | #1,735 |
| 1972 | — | — | 20 | #2,078 |
| 1971 | — | — | 21 | #2,050 |
| 1970 | — | — | 19 | #2,123 |
| 1969 | — | — | 20 | #1,912 |
| 1968 | — | — | 12 | #2,573 |
| 1967 | — | — | 13 | #2,348 |
| 1966 | — | — | 10 | #2,779 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,924 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,588 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,618 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #3,092 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,592 |
| 1959 | — | — | 8 | #3,287 |
| 1958 | — | — | 9 | #3,028 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,989 |
| 1955 | — | — | 8 | #3,198 |
| 1954 | — | — | 9 | #2,940 |
| 1953 | — | — | 8 | #3,140 |
| 1952 | — | — | 6 | #3,726 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #4,188 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,665 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).