Given name
Yaakub
Yaakub is a masculine given name from Arabic. It is used in Malay.
Meaning & origin
Yaakub’s family of names
Yaakub has a conventional equivalent in the English form Jacob.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
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 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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