Jakob - Origin and Meaning of the name

[ 2 syll. ja-kob, jak-ob ] The boy name Jakob is pronounced as JHAEKahB ^KEY. Jakob is primarily used in English, German, and Scandinavian. Its language of origin is Hebrew. Jakob is a variant form of the Dutch, English, German, and Scandinavian name Jacob. The short form Jaap (Dutch), and the pet forms Ib (Scandinavian), Jankel (Yiddish), Köbi (German), and Yankel (Yiddish) are variants of the name.

Jakob is rather popular as a baby boy name. The name has been rising in popularity since the 1980s. At the modest peak of its usage in 2001, 0.106% of baby boys were named Jakob. It was #171 in rank then. In 2008, its usage was 0.050% and its ranking #309. Out of the family of boy names directly related to Jakob, the Dutch, English, German, and Scandinavian Jacob was the most commonly used. In 2008, it was 21 times more commonly used than Jakob.

Baby names that sound like Jakob include the Hungarian Jakab, the Dutch, English, German, and Scandinavian Jacob, the English Jakeb, the Russian Jakiv, the Hungarian, Russian, and Slavic Jakov, the English Jeffy, the English and German Jephthah, the English Jessup, the English Joab, the Lapp Joba, the Spanish Jobo, the Finnish Joosef, the Czech, German, Hebrew, Polish, Portuguese, Scandinavian, and Yiddish Josef, the Slavic Josep, the English, French, and German Joseph, the English and French Josephe, the Slavic Josif, the Slavic Josip, the English Jospeh, and the Hungarian Joszef.

Details of famous persons named Jakob:
Composer Felix Mendelssohn, born Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy February 3, 1809 - November 4, 1847, Hamburg, Germany.
Fabulist Jacob Grimm, born Jakob Ludwig Carl Grimm 4 January 1785 - 20 September 1863, Hanau, Germany.

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