Yakup
The Turkish spelling of the name Poland writes as Jakub, Hebrew at root, where it means "supplanter", the one who grips a brother's heel. Fewer than 200 people carry it here, all men, so most Poles have never met one.
Yakup Pronunciation
Yakup is pronounced ih-AH-koop (/ɨˈakup/).
What Yakup means
Where Yakup comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yakup is the Turkish spelling of a Hebrew name, Yaʿaqov, which Poland writes as Jakub. The Hebrew root points to the heel. Old accounts tie it to the newborn who gripped his twin brother's heel at birth, and the Polish gloss keeps that scene: trzymający za piętę. From the same grip comes the English reading, supplanter, the one who steps into the place ahead of him.
In Turkish tradition the name belongs to a prophet, Yaʿqūb, father of Yūsuf in the Quran. That link kept Yakup common in Turkey for many generations, familiar and unremarkable on a roll of names.
The Polish variant Jakub sits close by, yet Yakup keeps its own vowels and its own past. A child called Yakup wears a Hebrew root under a Turkish coat. And the meaning holds to one small gesture: a hand on a heel.
How many people are named Yakup
1 in 123388 men in Poland is named Yakup. 173 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2433 among male names.
Yakup's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Yakup as a middle name
Yakup is a first name for 173 men in Poland and a middle name for another 19, a 90/10 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2099th, between Wolfram (19) and Yossef (19).
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#2097 Wiktoryn19
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#2098 Wolfram19
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#2099 Yakup19
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#2100 Yossef19
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#2101 Zsolt19