Yakov
20
Babies in 2024
+43%
10-year change
2011
Peak · 22
+54%
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 Yakov
Yakov appears in the official UK boys' name list for 2024, ranked #1,322 with 20 boys registered in England & Wales.
Yakov reached its peak in 2011, when 22 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,158 for UK boys that year. Today's count is broadly in line with the peak.
Across 28 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 311 boys have been officially registered with the name Yakov in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 159 boys were registered with the name, starting from 14 in 2014 and ending at 20 in 2024.