Yaqoob
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yaqoob is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 72nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: a Prophet, the biblical Jacob, son of Prophet Ishaq.
- BHBahrain≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 3K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 19K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈78,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bahrain, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a Prophet, the biblical Jacob, son of Prophet Ishaq
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yaqoob 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #72 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | listed | Yaqoob | 113 |
| IQ Iraq | #841 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Yaqoob | 19 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #768 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Yaqoob | 42 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #358 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Yaqoob | 57 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Yaqoob | 16 |
| BH Bahrain | #41 | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Yaqoob | 40 |
| US United States | — | 304 | 1 in 1.1M | 575 | Yaqoob | 127 |
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 pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Yaqoob 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 Arabic, a Prophet, the biblical Jacob, son of Prophet Ishaq
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)
- Abu Yusufb. 731IQnot in their usual nameArab Muslim Scholar and jurist (died 798)
- Al-Kindib. 801IQnot in their usual nameMuslim Arab philosopher, mathematician and physician (c.801–873)
- Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansurb. 1160MAnot in their usual nameRuler of the Almohad Caliphate from 1184 to 1199
- Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd Al-Haqqb. 1212MAnot in their usual nameMarinid Sultan of Algeria (r. 1258–1286)
- Al-Mustamsikb. 1470EGnot in their usual name16th Caliph of Cairo
- Jacob Frankb. 1726UAnot in their usual namePolish-Jewish religious leader
- Yakub Begb. 1820UZnot in their usual nameKing of Kashgaria (1820–1877)
- Mohammad Yaqub Khanb. 1849AFnot in their usual nameEmir of Afghanistan during 1879 (1849–1923)
- Yakov Ganetskyb. 1879PLnot in their usual nameSoviet politician (1879-1937)
- Yakub Kolasb. 1882BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian writer (1882–1956)
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 33 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 5 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Yaqoob mean, and where does it come from?
- a Prophet, the biblical Jacob, son of Prophet Ishaq Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- What are other forms of the name Yaqoob?
- In the etymology graph, Jacobo, Jakab and Giacobbe are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Yaqoob have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 78 thousand people named Yaqoob in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yaqoob.
- How common is the name Yaqoob?
- In the United States, the national register counted 304 people named Yaqoob in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Yaqoob compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Yaqoob is the 72nd most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Yaqoob” — the 72nd most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.