Yacoub
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Turkey; Sudan
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈjækaʊb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yacoub is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 23K(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 29K
- FRFrance≈1 in 64K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 232 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Jordan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Turkey; Sudan
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yacoub 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Yacoub | 86 |
| JO Jordan | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Yacoub | 52 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 150K | listed | Yacoub | 1 |
| US United States | 1,540 | 1 in 216K | 2.1K | Yacoub | 232 |
| FR France | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 64K | 835 | Yacoub | 190 |
| SE Sweden | 916 | 1 in 11K | 916 | Yacoub | 27 |
| SY Syria | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Yacoub | 15 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Yacoub | 25 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Yacoub | 41 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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)
- Magdi Yacoubb. 1935EGEgyptian surgeon
- Mohamed Yacoubb. 1937TNTunisian art historian (1937–2011)
- Talaat Yacoubb. 1944DZpolitician
- Joseph Yacoubb. 1944FRFrench university teacher
- Gabriel Yacoubb. 1952FRFrench musician, songwriter and visual artist (1952–2025)
- Paola Yacoubb. 1966LBartist
- Rami Yacoubb. 1975SESwedish record producer
- Souheila Yacoubb. 1992CHSwiss gymnast and actress
- Zara Mahamat Yacoubb. 2000TDChadian film maker, director and journalist
- Lila Yacoubfilm producer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,519 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,090 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #23,315 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 916 | #1,074 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 90 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Yacoub mean, and where does it come from?
- Turkey; Sudan Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Yacoub?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈjækaʊb/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Yacoub?
- In the etymology graph, Jacobo, Jakab and Giacobbe are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Yacoub have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Yacoub in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yacoub.
- How common is the name Yacoub?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,540 people named Yacoub in 2010, about 1 in 216 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yacoubThe 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, “Yacoub”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.