Yaacob
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yaacob 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 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 34K
- THThailand≈1 in 12Kas ยะโกะ
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 Yaacob 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 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Yakob in ID Indonesia, ET Ethiopia and ยะโกะ in TH Thailand.
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)
Yaacob 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 |
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Yaacob have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Yaacob in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yaacob.
- How common is the name Yaacob?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 558 people named Yacob, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
- How common is Yaacob compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Yaacob is the 48th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yaacob?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yaacobThe 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, “Yaacob” — the 48th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.