Jacob

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Faroese
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant spelling (English and German) of Jakob

Related Names

See Jacobus

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Jacobinpoika
Jacobsen
Jacobson
Jacobssen
Jacobsson
Jacobssøn
Jacobsøn

Female

Jacobdatter
Jacobdotter
Jacobintytär
Jacobsdatter
Jacobsdotter
Jacobsdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Jacob
Genitive:	Jacobs

- Faroese
Nominative:	Jacob
Accusative:	Jacob
Dative:	Jacobi
Genitive:	Jacobs

- Finnish
Nominative:	Jacob
Genitive:	Jacobin
Partitive:	Jacobia

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Jacob
Genitive:	Jacobs

- Swedish
Nominative:	Jacob
Genitive:	Jacobs

Name Day

Denmark

1 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: (1365?)

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway:
  • early 20th century
  • 2000-
• Denmark:
  • Top 7 in the 17th century in København
  • Top 10 in the 17th century in Nakskov
  • Top 16 in the 17th century in Sjælland
  • 1970-
• Sweden:
  • 1960-
  • 1980-

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark:
  • Sjælland
• Sweden:
  • Gotland (19th century) see map
  • Gotland
  • Östsverige

Namesakes

• Jacob Hveding (1736-?), Norwegian lawyer, Faroese løgmaður (1772-1786)
• Jacob Christian (J. C.) Jacobsen (2 September 1811 – 30 April 1887), Danish industrialist and philanthropist best known for founding the brewery Carlsberg
• Stig Henning Jacob Puggaard Paludan (7 February 1896 - 26 September 1975), Danish author

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 987 people were named Jacob (percentage of first or only given name: 31 %)

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Denmark		20275	n.a.	0	n.a.	20275	n.a.
Sweden		10859	14497	5	17	10854	14480
Finland		n.a.	997	0	0	n.a.	997
Greenland		65	181	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		18	21	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		3694	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	3694	n.a.
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

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Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Jacob (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.