Given name & surname
Yakubu
Yakubu is a masculine given name from Hebrew. It is used in Hausa.
Meaning & origin
Yakubu’s family of names
In Hausa usage, Yakubu has a conventional equivalent in the German form Jakob.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
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.
People named Yakubu
- YakubuNigerian association football player (born 1982)
- Yakubu GowonNigerian politician and Military generalborn 1934
- Yakubu MuhammedNigerian actor and singerborn 1973
- Yakubu AdamuNigerian footballerborn 1981
- Ahmed Alhassan YakubuGhanaian politicianborn 1957
- Yakubu AdesokanParalympic powerlifterborn 1979
- Yakubu TaliGhanaian politician and late paramount chief of Tolon1916–1986
- Yakubu OseniNigerian politicianborn 1975
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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