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Yaqub

#3,123 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Yaʿaqov

Yaqub has been given to 642 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #3,123 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 51 recorded.

Babies named Yaqub, 2025

1 in 85,000

Yaqub over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yaqub: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Yaʿaqov

Arabic

What Yaqub means

Yaqub is a form of Yaʿaqov.

Origin, language, and formation

Yaqub is used in English and Azerbaijani. Its origins include Arabic.

Yaqub comes through Arabic يَعْقُوب.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yaʿaqov and Jacob.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 642 boys were recorded with the name Yaqub between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 51 in 2019; its best national rank was #2,579 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,727 in 2020 to #3,123 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,588 in 2015 to #3,123 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Yaqub?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 85,000
39 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 43,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,123
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
58,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yaqub 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 58,922 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yaqub. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yaqubs were born

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

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
642
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.6% of all recorded uses (293).

Is Yaqub 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
−124
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+604
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+465
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.26×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.5%
Peak was 2019 (51)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,579
2019

Spellings of Yaqub

Yaqub is not the most common spelling — Jakub is, with 51.0% against Yaqub's 10.7%.

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 Yaqub is used

Across 2016–2025, Yaqub was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 5,556 boys, against 1 in 40,734 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

118 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 5,556
  2. 2New York1 in 25,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 33,333
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 100,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 100,000

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.

Yaqub around the world

Where Yaqub 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
    1997–2025
    #349
    in 2025
  • France
    2021–2025
    #2,258
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2000–2000
    #556
    in 2000

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.

Yaqub by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,123
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 604
Best rank ever
#2,579
2019
Peak year
2019
51 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
642
Count in 2025
39

Names similar to Yaqub

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

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Sibling names for Yaqub

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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