Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Yakub 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 2004. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yakub through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 124
- 124 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,673 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −12%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,673 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 2015. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 296 as a first name in 2020; 352 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.
Yakub’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Yakub as a surname has a diminutive in KUBITSCHEK. In English usage, Yakub shares an earlier linguistic root with Jacob. In Turkish usage, Yakub has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Jaime.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Yakub has relatives in 3 languages.
5 related names in 3 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 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 34
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Jamesequivalent
- Santiagoequivalent
- Jacobdoublet · Portuguese, Spanish
- Thiagoequivalent
- Diegoequivalent
- JaimeSpanish
- Yakovequivalent
- Seamusequivalent
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- Jakobequivalent
- Jacquesequivalent
- JacoboSpanish
- Giacomoequivalent
- Jimequivalent
- Jakubequivalent
- Jacobusequivalent
- Yaacovequivalent
- Jacoequivalent
- Yacobequivalent
- Jacopoequivalent
- Jakabequivalent
- Jiminyequivalent
- Iacobusequivalent
- Séamusequivalent
- Jaccoequivalent
- Iacopoequivalent
- Yakivequivalent
- Jaumeequivalent
- יעקבequivalent
- Jakezequivalent
- Jokūbasequivalent
- Jaakkoequivalent
- Yakupequivalent
- JacóPortuguese
- Яковequivalent
People named Yakub
- Al-KindiMuslim Arab philosopher, mathematician and physician (c.801–873)
- Yakub KolasBelarusian writer (1882–1956)
- Abu YusufArab Muslim Scholar and jurist (died 798)731–798
- Yaqub al-MansurRuler of the Almohad Caliphate from 1184 to 11991160–1199
- Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-SaffarSafarid Dynasty Amir from 861 to 879840–879
- Mohammad Yaqub KhanEmir of Afghanistan during 1879 (1849–1923)
- Yakub Beg of YettisharKing of Kashgaria (1820–1877)
- Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd al-HaqqMarinid Sultan of Algeria (r. 1258–1286)1212–1286
- Al-Mustamsik16th Caliph of Cairo1447–1521
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.