Yacouba is a boy's name of African origin. Its meaning is not recorded in the standard references we check — we would rather tell you that plainly than guess. In 2024 it was given to 6 boys in the United States.
Yacouba belongs to the African tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess. It travels in a few spellings: Yaqub.
In the United States, Yacouba first appears in Social Security records in 2002. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #12235 in 2024, and in 2024 6 babies received the name — 11 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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The meaning of Yacouba is not recorded in the standard references we check. Rather than repeat an unsourced claim, we leave it open — its African origin is documented, but its exact meaning is not.
Yacouba is a boy name. In 2024, 6 babies received the name in the US.
Yacouba comes from the African tradition. It is also spelled Yaqub.
Yacouba first appears in US records in 2002. Its best-ever ranking was #12235 in 2024, and 6 babies were given the name in 2024.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. If you spot an error, write to hello@namepetal.com — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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