Given name & surname
Yaqoob
“he who supplants”
Yaqoob is a variant of Yaqub. In Arabic use, Yaqub carries the interpretation “he who supplants.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Yaqoob is a variant of Yaqub. In Arabic use, Yaqub carries the interpretation “he who supplants.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2009. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yaqoob through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 80
- 80 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,638 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −37%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,638 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 575 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.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
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Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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