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Jakub - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Jakub

[ syll. ja-kub, jak-ub ] The boy name Jakub is pronounced YahKYB KEY. Jakub has its origins in the Hebrew language, and it is used largely in Czech and Polish. Jakub is a variant form of the Dutch, English, German, and Scandinavian Jacob.

Jakub is uncommon as a baby name for boys. It is not in the top 1000 names. In 2008, out of the group of boy names directly related to Jakub, the Dutch, English, German, and Scandinavian Jacob was the most regularly used.

Baby names that sound like Jakub include the Arabic Yaqub, the Polish Juzef, the Greek, Romanian, Russian, and Slavic Iosif, the Russian Yakov, the Turkish Yakup, the Hebrew Yosef, the Slavic Yosif, the Arabic and Yiddish Yousef, the Arabic Youssef, the Arabic Yousuf, the Arabic Yusef, the Russian Yusif, the Arabic and Swahili Yusuf, the Russian Yusup, the Russian Yuzef, the Spanish Jacobo, the English Euseby, the Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish Eusebio, and the Portuguese Eusébio.

KEY: approx English pronunciation for Jakub: Y as in "yield (Y.IY.L.D)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)" ; Y as in "yield (Y.IY.L.D)" ; B as in "be (B.IY)"


 
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