Yakup
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Jacob
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yakup is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 89th most common given name.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 699(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 9K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 5.1K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 699 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Jacob
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yakup 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #89 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 699 | #57 | Yakup | 119 |
| AF Afghanistan | #726 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Yakup | 3 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Yakup | 6 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 201K | — | Yakup | 56 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | 246 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 248 | 1 in 24K | 248 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | #375 | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Yakup | 13 |
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: the tr-tuik-child-stats register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Yakup is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Erkek keklik. 2. İbr. Takip eden, izleyen.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In German, männl. Vom., türkische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Sultan Yaqubb. 1464TRnot in their usual nameThe fourth Padishah of Aq Qoyunlu (1478–1490)
- Yakup Şevki Subaşıb. 1876TRTurkish general and statesperson (1876–1939)
- Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlub. 1889TRTurkish writer (1889–1974)
- Yakup Satarb. 1898TRTurkish military officer (1898–2008)
- Yakup Barokasb. 1946TRTurkish journalist (born 1946)
- Yakup Taşb. 1959TRTurkish statesperson (1959–2023)
- Yakup Kılıçb. 1986TRTurkish boxer (born 1986)
- Yakup Görb. 1988TRTurkish wrestler (born 1988)
- Yakup Şenerb. 1990TRTurkish boxer (born 1990)
- Yakup I of GermiyanBey Germiyan
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 35 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 248 | #762 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 246 | #583 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 7 | #631 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 2021 | — | #57 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Yakup mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Jacob Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Yakup a male or female name?
- Yakup 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.
- What are other forms of the name Yakup?
- In the etymology graph, James, Jaime and Jamie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Yakup have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 117 thousand people named Yakup in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yakup.
- How common is the name Yakup?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 248 people named Yakup, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Yakup compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Yakup is the 89th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yakupThe 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, “Yakup” — the 89th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.