Yakob
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yakob 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 Yakob 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 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 named Yaacob, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ethiopia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Yaacob in MY Malaysia 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.
Sources 1
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yakob 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 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 55 | 1 in 153K | 55 | — | 2 |
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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Yakob 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 Ewe, Jacob (biblical character)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Ayelech Yakobb. 1991ETbadminton player
- Kevin Yakobb. 2000SESwedish-Iraqi association football player
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 38 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 70 | #20,746 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 55 | #17,311 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Yakob?
- In the etymology graph, Jaques and Yacouba are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Yakob 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 Yakob?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 55 people named Yakob in 2024, about 1 in 153 thousand residents.
- How common is Yakob compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Yakob is the 48th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yakob?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yakobThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Yakob” — the 48th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.