Yacoube Surname
Approximately 48 people bear this surname
Yacoube Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritania | 25 | 1:163,795 | 8,806 |
| Egypt | 9 | 1:10,215,084 | 48,153 |
| Niger | 6 | 1:3,198,670 | 54,540 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
Yacoube (261) may also be a first name.
Yacoube Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yacoube Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Yacoube (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﻌﻘﻮﺏ) occurs most in Mauritania. It can occur as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yacoube? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,808,717th most common last name worldwide, borne by around 1 in 151,823,873 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 92 percent of Yacoube reside; 71 percent reside in West Africa and 54 percent reside in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 550,922nd most frequently held first name globally, borne by 261 people.
Yacoube is most common in Mauritania, where it is borne by 25 people, or 1 in 163,795. In Mauritania Yacoube is most numerous in: Nouakchott-Nord Region, where 44 percent live, Guidimagha Region, where 28 percent live and Trarza Region, where 12 percent live. Aside from Mauritania this surname exists in 9 countries. It also occurs in Egypt, where 19 percent live and Niger, where 13 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yacoube Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yacoube in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﻌﻘﻮﺏ | yqwb | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Yacoube
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