First name origin & meaning:
Hebrew: The supplanter
First name variations: Jakob, Jacobo, Jacopo, Jacoba, Jacobson, Jacobi, Jacobine, Jacobina, Jayme, Jacques, Jacinto, Jascha, Jake, Jackob, Jakub, Jack, Jackson, Jeb, Cob, Giacobo, Giacomo, Iago, Iacovo, Yago, Yaacov, Yacov, Yakov, Jaccob, Jachob, Jaco, Jacobb, Jacub, Jaecob, Jaicob, Jalu, Jecis, Jeks, Jeska, Jocek, Jock, Jocob, Jocobb, Jokubus, Jacob
Last name origins & meanings:
- English (mainly Dorset; also East Anglia): from the Middle
English byname or personal name Cobbe, Cobba, or its Old
Norse cognate Kobbi, which are probably from an element meaning
‘lump’, used to denote a large man.
- English (mainly Dorset; also East Anglia): from a reduced form of
Jacob.