This name is not only a cognate of Jacob, but also a cognate of James. The two names are also derived both from Yaacov; around the world, in the most part of languages, exists only one version for the two names, like Yaqob in Arabic that it's used for the patriarch Jacob and for the two apostles named James.
Personal name of Abu Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī, latinized as Alkindus. Lived c. 801-873 AD. He was known as "the Philosopher of the Arabs", was a Muslim Arab philosopher, polymath, mathematician, physician and musician. Al-Kindi was the first of the Muslim peripatetic philosophers, and is unanimously hailed as the "father of Islamic or Arabic philosophy" for his synthesis, adaptation and promotion of Greek and Hellenistic philosophy in the Muslim world.
Yaqub is a very beautiful and handsome Arabic name. One of my fave Arabic male names. ^_^
― Anonymous User 6/10/2015
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The name is spelled Yaqoob not Yaqub. I guess that could be a different way to spell it. But in the bible it's Yaqoob.
― Anonymous User 11/18/2008
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This name is Arabic, which uses a different alphabet than the Roman Alphabet. Therefore it can be spelled a number of different ways and has no set Latin spelling.