Yakub
18
Babies in 2024
+100%
10-year change
2024
Peak · 18
+50%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Yakub
Yakub is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (18) are up 100% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Yakub reached its peak in 2024, when 18 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,460 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 18 represents 100% of the peak.
Across 23 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 217 boys have been officially registered with the name Yakub in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 128 boys were registered with the name, starting from 9 in 2014 and ending at 18 in 2024.