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Yakob

Boys' name

English equivalent of Jacob

Yakob has been given to 36 babies in the U.S. since 2004. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2021, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Yakob, 2021

1 in 424,000

Yakob 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yakob: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Jacob

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yakob means

Yakob is a English equivalent of Jacob.

Origin, language, and formation

Yakob is used in Ewe.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jacob.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Ewe, Yakob is pronounced /já.kòb/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 36 boys were recorded with the name Yakob between 2004 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2021; its best national rank was #9,659 in 2021.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Yakob?

Yakob had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 424,000
8 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 219,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
293,719 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yakob 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 2021 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 293,719 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yakob. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yakobs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yakob was born before 2019 — so the typical Yakob is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
36
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.2% of all recorded uses (17).

Is Yakob 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2021 (8)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,659
2021

Spellings of Yakob

Yakob is not the most common spelling — Jacob is, with 94.1% against Yakob's <0.01%.

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.

Yakob around the world

Where Yakob 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
    2009–2016
    #4,810
    in 2016

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Yakob by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,659
2021
Peak year
2021
8 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
36
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yakob

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

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Sibling names for Yakob

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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