In 2025, 39 US boys were named Yaqub, making it the 3,124th most common boys’ name of the year, down 124 places from #3,000 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 42 boys named Yaqub in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,580, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 51. For comparison, it was #3,589 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yaqub in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2000 with 6 babies. In all, 642 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 293 babies named Yaqub.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 385 US boys were named Yaqub; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 51. In 2025 that was about 1 in 43,797 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.