Given name · Ukrainian
Яків
“heel”
Яків (Jákiv) is a masculine given name. It is used in Ukrainian.
UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Âkìv.
Meaning & origin
Яків’s family of names
In Ukrainian usage, Яків has a diminutive in Я́ша. In Ukrainian usage, Яків has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Jacob. In Ukrainian usage, Яків has a conventional equivalent in the German form Jakob.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Яків has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Hebrew roots to each of them.
10 related names in 6 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 14
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Яків
- Yakiv HolovatskyUkrainian writer and academic (1814-1888)
- Iakiv KhammoUkrainian judokaborn 1994
- Yakiv StepovyUkrainian composer, music teacher, and music critic1883–1921
- Yakiv SmoliiGovernor of the National Bank of Ukraineborn 1961
- Yakiv ShchoholivUkrainian poet (1823-1898)
- Yakiv Ostryanyn
- Jacob (Makarchuk)born 1952
- Yakov FedorenkoSoviet general (1896–1947)
- Yakiv MamontivUkrainian writer (1888-1940)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Яків, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Ayil
Ayil is a surname from Hebrew.
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Ashkenaz
“fire like sprinkles” · “so fire is scattered”
>99% boys
Thamah
“wipe clean” · “strike”
>99% boys
Lamec
“to make small”
>99% boys
Japhlet
“he will deliver”
86% boys · 14% girls
Neemia
“consolation of Yahweh”
77% boys · 23% girls
Dumah
“(deadly) silence”
>99% boys
Ilìa
“Jah is my God”
>99% boys