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Yakub

#9,669 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Yaqub

Yakub has been given to 124 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #9,669 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Yakub, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yakub: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Yaqub

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yakub means

Yakub is a alternate transcription of Yaqub.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yaqub.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 124 boys were recorded with the name Yakub between 2004 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2015; its best national rank was #7,470 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,518 in 2020 to #9,669 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,470 in 2015 to #9,669 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 Yakub?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,669
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yakub 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yakub. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yakubs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yakub was born before 2016 — so the typical Yakub is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
54.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
124
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Choose a decade

2010s — 54.0% of all recorded uses (67).

Is Yakub 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
−715
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−151
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,199
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.73×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
72.7%
Peak was 2015 (11)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,470
2015

Spellings of Yakub

Yakub is not the most common spelling — Jakob is, with 75.0% against Yakub's 0.29%.

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.

Yakub around the world

Where Yakub 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
    1996–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    1994–2025
    #3,504
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1996–1996
    #540
    in 1996

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

Yakub by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,669
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 151
Best rank ever
#7,470
2015
Peak year
2015
11 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
124
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Yakub

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

YakshYakirYakobYakovJaykubYakimYakoubJakubYakeemJaikub

Sibling names for Yakub

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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