The name Jakob is the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Greek Iacob, derived from the Hebrew name Ya’aqov. It means ‘may God protect’, ‘follower’ or ‘supplanter’. The English derivation is Jacob or also James.
Jakob is a first name for boys.
The name Jakob isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Jakob ranks 565. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Jakob. In the entire USA, approximately 29,572 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Jakob. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Jakob is the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Greek Iacob, derived from the Hebrew name Ya’aqov. It means ‘may God protect’, ‘follower’ or ‘supplanter’. The English derivation is Jacob or also James.
This spelling with... k' is known in the U.S. since the 1980s and became quite popular around 2000.
Jakob is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Jakob cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #166 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2001. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Jakob, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Jakob seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jakob was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
226 babies were named Jakob in 2022 - that's 1 in 714,274 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Jakob ranked 924 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Jakob occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Jakob is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Jakob is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 29,572 men and boys of all generations bear the name Jakob – that is one in 5,645. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Nevada, where one in 400 men and boys is called Jakob, while it is particularly rare in Hawaii, where you have to ask an average of 25,870 men for their name to get Jakob as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With five letters, the name Jakob is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Jakob and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jakob, you can simply say:
Joker
Apple
Koala
Orange
Butterfly
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jakob
Jakob
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
A
K
O
B
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
A
K
O
B
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jakob sounds like this:
