Yaakov is a male first name.
The name Yaakov isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Yaakov ranks 998. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Yaakov. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Yaakov.
Yaakov is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Yaakov - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 789 in 1986. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this boys' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Yaakov really in tune with his generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Yaakov was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
202 babies were named Yaakov in 2022 - that's 1 in 799,139 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Yaakov ranked 994 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
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 Yaakov 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 Yaakov 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 Yaakov, you can simply say:
Yoyo
Apple
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Koala
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Yaakov
Yaakov
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
A
K
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.
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A
A
K
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. Yaakov sounds like this:
