Yaacov is a first name for boys.
Recently, the name Yaacov has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Yaacov. That means that a boy named Yaacov is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Yaacov.
Meeting a man or boy named Yaacov is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Yaacov can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Yaacov. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Yaacov living in one state or another. (If your name is Yaacov and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Yaacov is in New York, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in New York, only 0.00016% of all male residents are called Yaacov – that’s just one in 638,305! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 20 men going by that name. So, if your name is Yaacov, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Y is pretty rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.7% of all common boys' names in the US begin with Y. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Yaacov is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Since 1.7% of all boys’ names begin with a Y, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average, but Y is by no means the rarest initial. And of course, there are single names with Y that are very popular, currently the most common boys’ name that starts with Y is Yahir.
If your name is Yaacov and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Yaacov, you can simply say:
Yoyo
Apple
Apple
Cat
Orange
Violin
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Yaacov
Yaacov
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Y
A
A
C
O
V
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Y
A
A
C
O
V
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Yaacov sounds like this:
