Boys' name · since 1990
Yacob
202 babies named Yacob in U.S. Social Security records since 1990, with the highest year being 2017. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #12,902 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 202
- born since 1990
- 2010s
- peak decade
202 boys have been named Yacob since 1990, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Yacob has 202 recorded births among boys since 1990, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1990 to 2024.
- #12,902 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- 202 born since 1990
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Yacob ranks #12,902 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 202 born since 1990, peaking in the 2010s.
- #12,902 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 202
- born since 1990
- 2010s
- peak decade
Yacob's 202 recorded births place it above 71.62% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Yacob's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Yacob's full recorded timeline at 2012, 60% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 40% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1994, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2017 peak of 18 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Yacob popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1990–2024
- Peak year (2017)
- 18
- Annual births at peak, across 35 years of records
Yacob by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (106 births, 52% of the file).
2010s was Yacob's strongest decade.
106 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 52% of all-time use.
Yacob births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 12
1990s
12 births
- 2000s
2000s
52 births
- 2010s
2010s
106 births
- 2020s 32
2020s
32 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 106 births (52% of all-time use).
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- Yacob's decade-level peak was the 2010s (106 total births); usage has since declined to 32 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Yacob: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2017)
Similar record span (~34 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1990–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Yacob draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.