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The first name 
Yacoub

Yacoub is a first name for boys.

Yacoub – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Yacoub in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Yacoub in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Yacoub by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Yacoub ranks at #5,354. That means there are 5,353 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Yacoub.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Yacoub

Yacoub -
at home in

Meeting a man or boy named Yacoub is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Yacoub can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Yacoub. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Yacoub living in one state or another. (If your name is Yacoub and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Yacoub is in California, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00003% of all male residents are called Yacoub – that’s just one in 3,266,336! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 5 men going by that name. So, if your name is Yacoub, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.

Yacoub has 6 letters 
and begins with a Y

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Y is pretty rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.7% of all common boys' names in the US begin with Y. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With six letters, the name Yacoub is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Since 1.7% of all boys’ names begin with a Y, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average, but Y is by no means the rarest initial. And of course, there are single names with Y that are very popular, currently the most common boys’ name that starts with Y is Yahir.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Yacoub

If your name is Yacoub and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Yacoub

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Yacoub, you can simply say:

Yoyo

Apple

Cat

Orange

Unicorn

Butterfly

This is how the name Yacoub is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Yacoub in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Yacoub

Yacoub

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Yacoub

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Yacoub is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

Y
A
C
O
U
B

Have you ever waved the name Yacoub

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

Y
A
C
O
U
B

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Yacoub sounds like this: