Yakub, Yaqub, Yaqoob, Yaqoub, Yacoub, Yakoub or Yaâkub (Arabic: يعقوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb or Ya'kūb, also transliterated in other ways; Yakob, as commonly westernized) is a male given name.
It is the Arabic version of Jacob and James.
The Arabic form Ya'qūb/Ya'kūb may be direct from the Hebrew or indirectly through Syriac.
[1] The name was in use in pre-Islamic Arabia[1] and is a common given name in Arab, Turkish, and Muslim societies.
It is common in Polish, Czech and Slovak languages, where it is transliterated as Jakub.