Yakiv
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jɑkiv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yakiv is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 7K(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 65K
- ISIceland1 in 175K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ukraine, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yakiv counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Yakiv is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Я́ків (Jákiv).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yakiv Holovatskyb. 1814UAUkrainian writer and academic (1814-1888)
- Yakiv Shchoholivb. 1823UAUkrainian poet (1823-1898)
- Yakiv Yatsynevychb. 1869UAUkrainian composer, conductor, and folklorist (1869-1945)
- Yakiv Stepovyb. 1883UAUkrainian composer, music teacher, and music critic
- Yakov Fedorenkob. 1896UAnot in their usual nameSoviet general (1896–1947)
- Jacques Hnizdovskyb. 1915USnot in their usual nameUkrainian-born American painter, printmaker, graphic designer, illustrator and sculptor (1915-1985)
- Yakiv Kulykovb. 1915UApolitician
- Yakiv Tymchukb. 1919UARoman Catholic bishop
- Yakov Gordienkob. 1925UAnot in their usual nameSoviet partisan (1925–1942)
- Iakiv Khammob. 1994UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian judoka
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 587 | #645 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 561 | #639 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 43 | #31,614 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 15 | #1,775 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2023 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 3 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2022 | 2 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Yakiv?
- A machine transcription gives /jɑkiv/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- Is Yakiv a male or female name?
- Yakiv is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Yakiv?
- In the etymology graph, James, Jaime and Jacob are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Yakiv have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.3 thousand people named Yakiv in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yakiv.
- How common is the name Yakiv?
- In Poland, the national register counted 587 people named Yakiv in 2026, about 1 in 65 thousand residents.
- How common is Yakiv compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Yakiv is the 248th most common given name of 85,149 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yakiv?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yakivThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yakiv” — the 248th most common given name in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.