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Yacoub

#6,429 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Yaqub

Yacoub has been given to 278 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #6,429 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Yacoub, 2025

1 in 237,000

Yacoub over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yacoub: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Yaqub

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yacoub means

Yacoub is a alternate transcription of Yaqub.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yaqub.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 278 boys were recorded with the name Yacoub between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2020; its best national rank was #4,412 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,412 in 2020 to #6,429 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,040 in 2015 to #6,429 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Yacoub?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,429
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yacoub sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yacoub. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yacoubs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yacoub was born before 2017 — so the typical Yacoub is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
278
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Choose a decade

2010s — 39.6% of all recorded uses (110).

Is Yacoub rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+380
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,017
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+611
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.9%
Peak was 2020 (23)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,412
2020

Spellings of Yacoub

Yacoub is not the most common spelling — Jacob is, with 99.8% against Yacoub's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Yacoub is used

Across 1910–2025, Yacoub was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Yacoub has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yacoub around the world

Where Yacoub ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2024
    #3,689
    in 2024
  • France
    1933–2025
    #609
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1977–2001
    #581
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Yacoub by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,429
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,017
Best rank ever
#4,412
2020
Peak year
2020
23 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
278
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Yacoub

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Yacoub

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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