Yakub
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Arabic form of Jacob, the Qur'anic prophet
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yakub is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 8.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 40K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 12K
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 Yakub 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.4K (inferred from the name graph)
433,698 named Jakub, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
Arabic form of Jacob, the Qur'anic prophet.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yakub 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 433,698as Jakub | 1 in 88 | 434K | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 216,026as Jakub | 1 in 50 | 216K | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Yakub | 57 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Yakub | 43 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 40K | listed | Yakub | 91 |
| NO Norway | 1,627as Jakub | 1 in 3.4K | 4.8K | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 1,514as Jakub | 1 in 6.7K | 1.5K | — | 5 |
| IS Iceland | 587as Jakub | 1 in 598 | 587 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 47 | 1 in 368K | 47 | Yakub | 11 |
433,698 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the id-github-names register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Yakub is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, Jacob; Qur'anic patriarch Ya'qub
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
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. 1820UZKing 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. 1882BYBelarusian 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 57 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 143 | #1,628 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 142 | #6,109 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 139 | #1,557 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 104 | #8,325 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 59 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 47 | #6,964 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 31 | #15,355 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 7 | #2,219 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 7 | #2,931 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 2 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2011 | 1 | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What are other forms of the name Yakub?
- In the etymology graph, James, Jaime and Jacob are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Yakub mean, and where does it come from?
- Arabic form of Jacob, the Qur'anic prophet. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Is Yakub a male or female name?
- Yakub 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.
- In which country does Yakub have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 434 thousand people named Jakub, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Yakub?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 47 people named Yakub, about 1 in 368 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yakubThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Yakub”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.