# Yaqub (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/yaqub/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Yakub |
| US babies named this | 642 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 642 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,624, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic يَعْقُوب (yaʕqūb).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 18 | 5,194 |
| 2012 | 29 | 3,710 |
| 2013 | 17 | 5,392 |
| 2014 | 22 | 4,531 |
| 2015 | 31 | 3,589 |
| 2016 | 27 | 3,983 |
| 2017 | 38 | 3,121 |
| 2018 | 39 | 3,052 |
| 2019 | 51 | 2,580 |
| 2020 | 29 | 3,730 |
| 2021 | 33 | 3,494 |
| 2022 | 46 | 2,827 |
| 2023 | 41 | 3,054 |
| 2024 | 42 | 3,000 |
| 2025 | 39 | 3,124 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 54 | 626 |
| 2012 | 54 | 640 |
| 2013 | 66 | 546 |
| 2014 | 79 | 495 |
| 2015 | 73 | 526 |
| 2016 | 75 | 521 |
| 2017 | 91 | 454 |
| 2018 | 92 | 446 |
| 2019 | 102 | 414 |
| 2020 | 86 | 456 |
| 2021 | 111 | 392 |
| 2022 | 126 | 342 |
| 2023 | 108 | 377 |
| 2024 | 130 | 336 |
| 2025 | 121 | 349 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.