Given name
Hakob
“heel”
Hakob is a masculine given name from Armenian. It is used in English and Ilocano.
Original ArmenianՀակոբ
Meaning & origin
What it means
Hakob goes back to Spanish Jacob, meaning “heel.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Ilocano usage, Hakob developed from יעקב. In Ilocano usage, Hakob developed from Ἰάκωβος.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hakob through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 20
- 20 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 349 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hakob’s family of names
In English usage, Hakob shares an earlier linguistic root with Jacob. In English usage, Hakob has a related form in Hagop. In Ilocano usage, Hakob was borrowed from the Spanish form Jacob.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Hakob has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Armenian roots to each of them.
Armenianwhere Hakob comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hakob
- Hakob ManandyanArmenian historian, philologist, and academician (1873–1952)
- Hakob MeghapartArmenian painter1500–1600
- Hakob GyurjianArmenian sculptor (1881–1948)
- Hakob HovnatanyanArmenian artist (1806-1881)
- Hakob KarapentsIranian-Armenian author born in 1925 in Tabriz, Iran
- Hakob ZavrievArmenian politician1866–1920
- Hakob HakobyanArmenian association football playerborn 1997
- Hakob SiruniArmenian historian, philologist, publicist, and poet1890–1973
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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