Jacob

A male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “supplanter.”.

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Jacob is a common male first name and a less well-known surname. It is a cognate of James. Jacob is derived from Late Latin Iacobus, from Greek Ἰάκωβος Iakobos, from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Yaʿqob, Yaʿaqov, Yaʿăqōḇ), the name of the Hebrew patriarch, Jacob son of Isaac and Rebecca. The name comes either from the Hebrew root עקב ʿqb meaning "to follow, to be behind" but also "to supplant, circumvent, assail, overreach", or from the word for "heel", עֲקֵב ʿaqeb.
In the narrative of Genesis, it refers to the circumstances of Jacob's birth when he held on to the heel of his older twin brother Esau (Genesis 25:26). The name is etymologized (in direct speech by the character Esau) in Genesis 27:36, adding the significance of Jacob having "supplanted" his elder brother by buying his birthright.
In a Christian context, Jacob – James as reduced English form – is the name for several people in the New Testament: (1) apostle James, son of Zebedee, (2) another apostle James, son of Alphaeus, and (3) James the brother of Jesus (James the Just), who led the original Messianic Community in Jerusalem.

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Masc. proper name; Old Testament patriarch, son of Isaac and Rebecca and father of the founders of the twelve tribes, from Late Latin Iacobus, from Greek Iakobos, from Hebrew Ya'aqobh, literally "one that takes by the heel; a supplanter" (Genesis xxv.26), a derivative of 'aqebh "heel." The most popular name for boys born in the U.S. from 1999 through 2008. Jacob's ladder, in various transferred uses from 1733, is from Genesis xxviii.12. In Spanish as Jago, Iago, also Diego; with alterations as Italian Giacomo, James, and (contracted) Spanish Jaime.

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Supplanter, held by the heel.

Diego, Jake, Yakub, Chacko, Jaco, Danish, German, Jakey, Yakup, Jaagup, Jacoby, Jakeb, Jaime, Jack, James, Jakov, Jacobo, Jacques

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Jacob Tremblay	2006	Canadian actor
2	Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild	1936	British Baron
3	Jacob Zuma	1942	4th President of South Africa
4	Jacob Rees-Mogg	1969	British politician
5	Jacob Wetterling	1978	American kidnap victim
6	Jacob Sartorius	2002	Singer
7	Jacob Anderson	1990	British actor and singer
8	Jacob deGrom	1988	American baseball player
9	Jacob Artist	1992	American actor
10	Jacob Riis	1849	American photographer, journalist and activist
11	Jacob Latimore	1996	American entertainer
12	Jacob Batalon	1996	Filipino-American actor
13	Jacob Vargas	1971	American actor
14	Irène Jacob	1966	French-born Swiss actress
15	Jacob Lofland	1996	American actor
16	Jacob Black	1990
17	Jacob Pitts	1980	American actor
18	Jacob Barnett	1998	American child prodigy
19	Jacob Appelbaum	1983	Computer security researcher, journalist and hacker from United States
20	Jacob Collier	1994	British musician
21	Jacob Marley		Fictional character who appears in Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol
22	Katerina Jacob	1958	German actress
23	Jacob Duran	1951	Professional cutman
24	Jacob Lawrence	1917	American painter
25	Jacob		Fictional character of the TV series Lost
26	Jacob Grimm	1785	German philologist, jurist and mythologist
27	Jacob Whitesides	1997
28	Jacob Bertrand	2000
29	Jacob Murphy	1995	English footballer
30	Jacob Eason	1997	American football player
31	Jacob in Islam
32	Jacob Dalton	1991	American gymnast
33	Jacob Bernoulli	1655	Swiss mathematician
34	J. F. R. Jacob	1923	Soldier, statesman
35	Jacob Young	1979	American actor
36	Jacob van Ruisdael	1628	Dutch painter and engraver
37	Jacob K. Javits	1904	American politician
38	Jacob Smith	1990	Actor
39	Jacob Hoggard	1984	Canadian musician
40	Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten	1927	Dutch aviator
41	Jacob Tierney	1979	Canadian actor
42	Jacob Hopkins	2002	American actor
43	Jacob Arabo		American jeweler
44	Jacob Schiff	1847	Banker and Philanthropist
45	Jacob Bronowski	1908	Polish-born British mathematician
46	Jacob Burckhardt	1818	Swiss historian
47	Jacob Tamme	1985	Player of American football
48	Jacob Epstein	1880	American-born British sculptor
49	Jacob Wysocki	1990	American actor and comedian
50	Jacob Trouba	1994	American ice hockey player
51	Jacob Pullen	1989	American basketball player
52	Jacob Bekenstein	1947	Mexican-Israeli physicist
53	Julian Jacob	1994
54	Jacob Gregory		Indian actor
55	Jacob Soboroff	1983	Television host, presenter
56	Jacob Frank	1726	Ukrainian rabbi
57	Jacob Barata	1932
58	Jacob W. Davis	1831	Tailor
59	Jacob Ifan	1993	Actor
60	Jacob Loucks Devers	1887	United States Army general
61	Alex Jacob	1984	American poker player
62	Jacob Butterfield	1990	Footballer
63	Jacob Zachar	1986	American actor
64	Jacob Ruppert	1867	American businessman, politician
65	Jacob Kogan	1995	American actor
66	Jacob Hester	1985	Player of American football
67	Jacob Banks	1991	British musician
68	Jacob M. Appel	1973	American author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic
69	Jacob Bannon	1976	American musician
70	JE Sahetapy	1932	Indonesian legal scholar
71	Marcel Jacob	1964	Swedish musician
72	Jacob Petrus	1976	Spanish television presenter
73	Max Jacob	1876	French poet, painter, writer and critic
74	Jacob Reynolds	1983	American actor
75	Josephine Jacob	1981	German actress
76	Jacob Lurie	1977	American mathematician
77	Jacob Turner	1991	Baseball pitcher from the United States
78	Jacob L. Moreno	1889	Austrian-American psychiatrist
79	François Jacob	1920	French biologist
80	Jacob Blyth	1992	Footballer
81	Sylvie Jacob		French actress
82	Jacob Bruun Larsen	1998
83	Jacob Jordaens	1593	Flemish painter
84	Jacob Markström	1990	Hockey player
85	Jacob Weisberg	1964	American journalist and Slate Group editor-in-chief
86	Jacob Shapiro	1899	American mob boss
87	Jibu Jacob
88	Jacob Ewaniuk	2000	Canadian actor
89	Jacob Beser	1921	US Army Air Force officer
90	Jacob Wallenberg	1956	Swedish banker and industrialist
91	Jacob Anthony Perez	1996	American singer
92	Jacob Riising	1978	Danish actor
93	Jacob Brown	1775	American general in the War of 1812
94	Jacob Mellis	1991	Footballer
95	Jacob Stainer	1617	Austrian luthier
96	Jacob Perkins	1766	American scientist
97	Jacob Volkmann	1980	American martial artist
98	Jacob H. Smith	1840	United States Army general in the Philippine–American War
99	Jacob Neusner	1932	American rabbi and scholar
100	Jacob Desvarieux	1955	French guitarist
101	Jacob Mulenga	1984	Zambian footballer
102	Jacob Oram	1978	New Zealand cricketer
103	Jacob Hiatt	1905
104	Christine Jacob	1967	Swimmer, actress, television personality
105	André Jacob	1891	French architect
106	Jacob Roggeveen	1659	Dutch Pacific Ocean explorer
107	Jacob Ostreicher	1959	American businessman held without charges in Bolivian prison
108	Jacob Hamblin	1819	American diplomat
109	Jacob Lillyman	1984	Australian rugby league player
110	Jacob Viner	1892	Canadian economist
111	Jacob Reitsma	1945	Dutch politician
112	Jacob Leisler	1640	Leader of the Leisler Rebellion, de facto governor of New York
113	Jacob Weigert	1981	German actor
114	Jacob Cohen	1923	American statistician
115	Gordon Jacob	1895	English composer
116	Jacob Matlala	1962	South African boxer
117	Jacob Peterson	1986	American soccer player
118	Jacob Obrecht	1457	Flemish composer
119	Jacob Emden	1697	German rabbi
120	Jacob Marschak	1898	American economist
121	Jacob Parrott	1843	United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
122	Jacob Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey	1946	Ghanian politician
123	Jacob de la Rose	1995	Swedish ice hockey player
124	Jacob DeShazer	1912	Awarded both the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Purple Heart
125	Jacob Israël de Haan	1881	Dutch lawyer, legal scholar, diplomat, journalist, novelist and poet, assassinated by the Haganah
126	Jacob Broom	1752	American politician
127	Jacob Kettler	1610	Duke of Courland
128	Jacob Aagaard	1973	Danish-born Scottish chess grandmaster
129	Jacob Zurl	1988
130	Jacob Safra	1891	Syrian Sephardi Jewish banker
131	Jacob Mincer	1922	American economist
132	Jacob D. Robida	1987	American writer
133	Jacob Green	1957	American football player
134	Jacob Schick	1877	American businessman
135	Alexander Jacob	1955	Indian police officer
136	Jacob Dolson Cox	1828	Union Army General
137	Jacob Abbott	1803	American children's books writer
138	Jacob Orgen	1893	American mobster
139	Jacob Chestnut	1940	American police officer
140	Catherine Jacob	1956	French actress
141	Jacob of Nisibis	0300	Syrian saint
142	Jacob Hackenburg Griffiths-Randolph	1914	Politician and Former Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana
143	Jacob Ziv	1931	Israeli computer scientist
144	Jacob A. Frenkel	1943	Israeli-American economist and banker
145	Jacob Mayer	1813	Metallurgist
146	Jacob Larsson	1997	Swedish ice hockey player
147	Jacob M. Howard	1805	American politician
148	Jacob Josefson	1991	Swedish ice hockey player
149	Jacob Johan Anckarström	1762	Assassin of Gustav III, military captain
150	Jacob Berger	1963	Film director, Screenwriter
151	Jacob Collins-Levy
152	Jacob Gould Schurman	1854	American diplomat
153	Jacob Haugaard	1952	Danish/Faroese comedian, actor and politician
154	Jacob Nordenson	1952	Swedish actor
155	Jacob Lindgren	1993	American professional baseball pitcher
156	Jacob Freud	1815
157	Jacob Weitering	1997
158	Jacob Jensen	1926	Danish industrial designer
159	Jacob ben Asher	1283	Influential Medieval rabbinic authority referred to as Baal ha-Turim'
160	Jacob Golos	1889	Revolutionary and soviet spy
161	Jacob De la Gardie	1583	Swedish noble
162	Jacob Bjerknes	1897	Norwegian-American meteorologist
163	Jacob Tomuri	1979	New Zealand actor
164	Jacob Rinne	1993	Swedish footballer
165	Jacob Scipio	1993	British actor
166	Jacob van Loo	1614	Dutch painter
167	Jacob Brent	1973	American actor
168	Jacob Aaron Estes	1972	American film director
169	Jacob van Campen	1596	Painter and architect from the Northern Netherlands
170	Jacob Slichter	1961	Musician
171	Jacob Hutter	1500	Tyrolean Anabaptist leader and founder of the Hutterites
172	Jacob Rascon
173	Jacob Hacker	1971	American political scientist
174	Jacob Cats	1577	Dutch poet, humorist, jurist and politician
175	Danny Jacob	1956	American guitarist
176	Jacob Plant
177	Jacob Martin	1972	Indian cricket player.
178	Jacob Sahaya Kumar Aruni	1974	South Indian chef
179	Marius Jacob	1879	French anarchist
180	Jacob McQuaide	1987	American football player
181	Teuku Jacob	1929	Indonesian paleoanthropologist
182	Jacob Best	1786	American brewer
183	Jacob Gade	1879	Danish musician
184	Jacob Walcott	1992	English footballer
185	Jacob Burns	1978	Australian soccer player
186	Peter Jacob
187	Jacob Pavlovich Adler	1855	Russian-born actor in Yiddish theatere in Odessa, London and New York
188	Jacob Needleman	1934	American philosopher
189	Jacob Baradaeus		Bishop of Edessa
190	Jacob Clemens non Papa	1510	Flemish composer
191	Jacob Zeilin	1806	7th Commandant of the Marine Corps
192	Jacob Collins	1964	American artist
193	Jacob Brackman	1943	American journalist
194	Jacob Holdt	1947	Danish photographer
195	Jacob Faggot	1699	Swedish scientist
196	Jacob van Artevelde	1290	Flemish statesman and political leader
197	Jacob Thompson	1810	American politician
198	Jacob Kaimenyi	1952	Kenyan dentist
199	Jacob Barnes	1990	American professional baseball player
200	Jacob Astley, 1st Baron Astley of Reading	1579	British Royalist commander