Given name

Yoqub

Yoqub is a masculine given name from Arabic. It is used in Uzbek.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Yoqub comes from Arabic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Arabic يَعْقُوب.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Yoqub’s family of names

In Uzbek usage, Yoqub has a conventional equivalent in the German form Jakob. In Uzbek usage, Yoqub has a related form in Yaʼqub.

Walk Yoqub’s family in the name graph

YoqubYaʼqubJakob

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 1

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Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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