Yaakov
8
Babies in 2024
+60%
10-year change
1999
Peak · 12
0%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Yaakov
Yaakov peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (12 babies in 1999) and has remained in active use — 8 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Yaakov reached its peak in 1999, when 12 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,130 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 8 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 28 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 197 boys have been officially registered with the name Yaakov in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 81 boys were registered with the name, starting from 5 in 2014 and ending at 8 in 2024.