Yaakob
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yaakob is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country, where it is the 48th most common surname.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.6Kas Yaacob(inferred from the name graph)
- THThailand≈1 in 12Kas ยะโกะ
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 34Kas Yaacob
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yaakob itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 103K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 named Yaacob, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Laos, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Yakob in ID Indonesia, ET Ethiopia, Yaacob in MY Malaysia, ยะโกะ in TH Thailand and Yacob in LA Laos.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yaakob counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #48 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Yaacob | 73 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | — | Yakob | 6 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 34K | listed | Yakob | 67 |
| TH Thailand | #208 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 12K | #512,973 | ยะโกะ | 64 |
| AR Argentina | — | 558as Yacob | 1 in 82K | 558 | — | 5 |
| NO Norway | — | 126as Yacob | 1 in 43K | 230 | — | 3 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Yacob | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Yaakob have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Yaacob in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Yaakob?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 558 people named Yacob, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
- How common is Yaakob compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Yaakob is the 48th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yaakob?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yaakobThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Yaakob” — the 48th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.