Iacob was the #2,664 boys' name in England & Wales in 2025 (8 babies).
Iacob as a boy’s name
England & Wales
Ireland
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list.Official rank; #1 at the top. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.Show the numbers
Year
England & Wales
Ireland
2025
#2,664 (8)
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2024
#3,255 (6)
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2023
#3,524 (5)
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2022
#4,002 (4)
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2021
#3,990 (4)
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2020
#2,076 (10)
#741 (3)
2019
#2,488 (8)
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2018
#2,445 (8)
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2017
#3,040 (6)
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2014
#3,895 (4)
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The tide so far
Peaked in England & Wales in 2020 at #2,076.
Holding steady over the last five years.
First recorded in England & Wales in 2014.
How common is it?
about 1 in 34,000 baby boys in the published England & Wales list for 2025.
In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.
Next year
On its recent trend, Iacob is likely to keep rising in England & Wales in 2026: about 1 in 30,000 baby boys. Likely range 1 in 25,000 to 1 in 36,000.