Meaning not yet researched.
Yakov: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 153 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,195 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,195 in 2024; #1,286 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yakov in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,286 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,195.
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Yakov: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 153 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,195 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 172 (2024).
In 2025, 153 US boys were named Yakov, making it the 1,286th most common boys’ name of the year, down 91 places from #1,195 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 172 boys named Yakov in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,195, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 172. For comparison, it was #1,474 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yakov in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 5 babies. In all, 3,353 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,074 babies named Yakov.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,297 US boys were named Yakov; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 172. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,164 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yakov ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #152 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include James (5,274,520 babies since 1880), Jacob (990,532 babies since 1880), Jim (153,938 babies since 1880) and Diego (126,405 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Yakov 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 126 | #152 | #231 |
| New Jersey | 20 | #409 | #659 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 153 | #1,286 |
| 2024 | — | — | 172 | #1,195 |
| 2023 | — | — | 123 | #1,472 |
| 2022 | — | — | 140 | #1,345 |
| 2021 | — | — | 118 | #1,513 |
| 2020 | — | — | 121 | #1,436 |
| 2019 | — | — | 114 | #1,506 |
| 2018 | — | — | 130 | #1,363 |
| 2017 | — | — | 113 | #1,498 |
| 2016 | — | — | 113 | #1,512 |
| 2015 | — | — | 114 | #1,474 |
| 2014 | — | — | 90 | #1,700 |
| 2013 | — | — | 102 | #1,556 |
| 2012 | — | — | 104 | #1,544 |
| 2011 | — | — | 108 | #1,503 |
| 2010 | — | — | 86 | #1,758 |
| 2009 | — | — | 114 | #1,471 |
| 2008 | — | — | 91 | #1,690 |
| 2007 | — | — | 91 | #1,680 |
| 2006 | — | — | 73 | #1,875 |
| 2005 | — | — | 74 | #1,789 |
| 2004 | — | — | 64 | #1,933 |
| 2003 | — | — | 61 | #1,935 |
| 2002 | — | — | 50 | #2,153 |
| 2001 | — | — | 57 | #1,934 |
| 2000 | — | — | 46 | #2,195 |
| 1999 | — | — | 39 | #2,345 |
| 1998 | — | — | 54 | #1,848 |
| 1997 | — | — | 45 | #2,022 |
| 1996 | — | — | 43 | #2,045 |
| 1995 | — | — | 35 | #2,296 |
| 1994 | — | — | 43 | #1,974 |
| 1993 | — | — | 33 | #2,345 |
| 1992 | — | — | 44 | #1,883 |
| 1991 | — | — | 37 | #2,050 |
| 1990 | — | — | 22 | #2,950 |
| 1989 | — | — | 25 | #2,613 |
| 1988 | — | — | 23 | #2,597 |
| 1987 | — | — | 25 | #2,332 |
| 1986 | — | — | 25 | #2,287 |
| 1985 | — | — | 24 | #2,291 |
| 1984 | — | — | 19 | #2,611 |
| 1983 | — | — | 13 | #3,406 |
| 1982 | — | — | 15 | #3,101 |
| 1981 | — | — | 18 | #2,679 |
| 1980 | — | — | 18 | #2,727 |
| 1979 | — | — | 13 | #3,350 |
| 1978 | — | — | 14 | #3,069 |
| 1977 | — | — | 13 | #3,198 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #4,005 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #6,319 |
| 1974 | — | — | 12 | #3,117 |
| 1973 | — | — | 11 | #3,219 |
| 1972 | — | — | 9 | #3,619 |
| 1970 | — | — | 9 | #3,516 |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,929 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #4,043 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,593 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,564 |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,271 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #4,339 |
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).