Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Yacob isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1990. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yacob through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 202
- 202 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −53%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 2017. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 362 as a first name in 2020; 435 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yacob’s family of names
Yacob may belong to the same name family as YACCOB. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 49
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Jamesequivalent
- Santiagoequivalent
- Jacobequivalent
- Diegoequivalent
- Jaimeequivalent
- Jimmyequivalent
- Yaakovequivalent
- Santiequivalent
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- Yakovequivalent
- Seamusequivalent
- Jakobequivalent
- Jacquesequivalent
- Jacoboequivalent
- Giacomoequivalent
- Jimequivalent
- Jakubequivalent
- Yakubequivalent
- Jacobusequivalent
- Jacopoequivalent
- Yakobequivalent
- Jakabequivalent
- Jakovequivalent
- Yaacovequivalent
- Jacoequivalent
- Yakivequivalent
- Jaumeequivalent
- יעקבequivalent
- Jakezequivalent
- Jēkabsequivalent
- Jaakobequivalent
- Jokūbasequivalent
- Яківequivalent
- يعقوبequivalent
- Jaakoequivalent
- Jaakkoequivalent
- Xaimeequivalent
- Jacóequivalent
- Yakupequivalent
- Xacobeequivalent
- Яковequivalent
- Якаўequivalent
- Iacobusequivalent
- Chaimeequivalent
- Jockelequivalent
- Yakauequivalent
- Iacobequivalent
- Séamusequivalent
- Jaccoequivalent
- Iacopoequivalent
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