Jakob

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Male Name

Usage

Old Norse
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

Norse form of Jacobus ^[1]

Related Names

See Jacobus

Name Days

Norway

25 July

Finland (Swedish Language)

25 July

Sweden

25 July

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Jakob
Accusative:	Jakob
Dative:	Jakobi
Genitive:	Jakobs

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 11th century ^[1]

Predominant Regional Usage

Sweden: Gotland ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[2]		0	n.a.	15767	n.a
Sweden[3]		1	22	9455	13486
Norway[4]		0	0	3333	4328
Finland[5]		0	0	n.a	1811
#: 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.

 

Recent statistics trend^[3][2][4][5]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[4]:

Sources: ^{[3] [2] [4] [5]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi