Yaqoub

given name · Arabic · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Yaqoub is a given name, most frequently recorded in Kuwait. In Oman it is the 96th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • OMOman1 in 3.3K◐
  • KWKuwait1 in 4.1K
  • QAQatar1 in 21K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈52 ●

across 4 countries

Sources
57 ●

2.9K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 276K ◐

Sweden

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Yaqoub is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KW Kuwait#341564531 rec.——Yaqoub57
US United States—336658 rec.—12Yaqoub45
OM Oman#96318305 rec.——Yaqoub28
SA Saudi Arabia—226168 rec.——Yaqoub44
AE United Arab Emirates—169176 rec.——Yaqoub39
FR France—159192 rec.——Yaqoub39
QA Qatar—11271 rec.——Yaqoub19
GB United Kingdom—7242 rec.——Yaqoub19
TR Türkiye—6890 rec.——Yaqoub5
AF Afghanistan—5974 rec.——Yaqoub7
SY Syria—39104 rec.——Yaqoub9
SE Sweden—37△7 rec.1 in 276K37—3

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Arabic1.8K63%
  • English2248%
  • French1616%
  • Pashto552%
  • Turkish512%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Arabic1,80063%
English2248%
French1616%
Pashto552%
Turkish512%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Yaqoub is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name58 records spelled Yaqoub3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Yáqoub

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

05101520152020202513 · 2024

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Yaqoub in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 2013–2025
Yearrecords
20136
201612
201710
20186
20206
20226
20239
202413
202512

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 9 years between 2013–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

500100015002000Abu Yusuf, b. 731Al-Kindi, b. 801Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, b. 1160Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd Al-Haqq, b. 1212Al-Mustamsik, b. 1470Jacob Frank, b. 1726Yakub Beg, b. 1820Mohammad Yaqub Khan, b. 1849Yakov Ganetsky, b. 1879Yakub Kolas, b. 1882
  • Abu Yusufb. 731IQnot in their usual nameArab Muslim Scholar and jurist (died 798)
  • Al-Kindib. 801IQnot in their usual nameMuslim Arab philosopher, mathematician and physician (c.801–873)
  • Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansurb. 1160MAnot in their usual nameRuler of the Almohad Caliphate from 1184 to 1199
  • Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd Al-Haqqb. 1212MAnot in their usual nameMarinid Sultan of Algeria (r. 1258–1286)
  • Al-Mustamsikb. 1470EGnot in their usual name16th Caliph of Cairo
  • Jacob Frankb. 1726UAnot in their usual namePolish-Jewish religious leader
  • Yakub Begb. 1820UZnot in their usual nameKing of Kashgaria (1820–1877)
  • Mohammad Yaqub Khanb. 1849AFnot in their usual nameEmir of Afghanistan during 1879 (1849–1923)
  • Yakov Ganetskyb. 1879PLnot in their usual nameSoviet politician (1879-1937)
  • Yakub Kolasb. 1882BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian writer (1882–1956)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Yaqoub
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—37#16,707
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—23#17,928
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—23#22,912
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#40,891
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#42,131
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202014—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202413—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—12#53,127
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202512—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201612—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201710—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20239—

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 54 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Yaqoub?
We estimate roughly 52 people bear Yaqoub (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
In which country does Yaqoub have the most bearers?
Yaqoub is most frequently recorded in Kuwait, where it is most often spelled yaqoub.
How common is Yaqoub compared with other names?
In Kuwait, Yaqoub is the 341st most common given name of 12,199 given names recorded there.
Is Yaqoub a male or female name?
Yaqoub is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yaqoub” — the 341st most common given name in Kuwait. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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