Yaqub


Gender:
Origin: Hebrew
24 famous people named Yaqub found on Wikipedia.
360 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 3022-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 3022-th in year 2018
Used in: Arabic

Meanings

Yakub or Yaqub (Arabic: يعقوب‎‎, also transliterated in other ways including Yaqoob, Yaqoub, Yaqub and Yakup) is the Arabic and muslim version of Jacob and James , because in fact they are the same name. He's a Prophet of Islam (see Jacob in Islam) and hence commonly used as a male given name in Arab, Turkish and Muslim societies. It is also used as a surname. Prophet Yakub was grandson of prophet Ibrahim and son of prophet Ishaq.


Supplanter; held by the heel.

Famous People: 24 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Yaqub Eyyubov 1945 Azerbaijani politician
2 Yaqub Beg 1820 Head of the Kingdom of Kashgaria
3 Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar 0840 Founder of the Saffarid dynasty at Zaranj in what is now Afghanistan
4 Atta Yaqub 1979 Scottish actor
5 Yaqub Qureishi 2000 Indian politician
6 Yaqub Sanu 1839 Egyptian journalist
7 Abraham ben Jacob Jewish historian and explorer
8 Sidi Yaqub
9 Mo Yaqub 1994 British association football player
10 Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Israili 12th-century Egyptian Jewish physician
11 Yaqub Mirza Pakistani businessman
12 Jakub Bua Shpata
13 Yaqub al-Ghusayn 1899 Palestinian politician
14 Yaqub Salimov Tajikistani politician
15 Zelimxan Yaqub 1950 Azerbaijani poet (1950-2016)
16 Ya'qub Bilbul 1920 Israeli poet
17 Amr ibn Ya'qub Amir of Sistan
18 Mohammed Yusif Yaqub Guantanamo detainees known to have been released
19 Yaqub ibn Killis 0930 Egyptian Vizier under the Fatimids
20 Yaqub Kareem Nigerian boxer
21 Ya'qub ibn Dawud
22 Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Tamimi
23 Yaqub bin Uzun Hasan
24 Ali Musthafa Ya'qub 1952 Indonesian Grand Imam