Jakob

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Male Name

Usage

Old Norse
Old Swedish
Old Danish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Norse form of Jacobus

Related Names

See Jacobus

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Jakobinpoika
Jakobsen
Jakobson
Jakobssen
Jakobsson
Jakobssøn
Jakobsøn

Female

Jakobdatter
Jakobdotter
Jakobintytär
Jakobsdatter
Jakobsdotter
Jakobsdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Jakob
Genitive:	Jakobs

- Finnish
Nominative:	Jakob
Genitive:	Jakobin
Partitive:	Jakobia

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

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Jakob
Genitive:	Jakobs

- Swedish
Nominative:	Jakob
Genitive:	Jakobs

Name Days

Norway

25 July

Finland (Swedish Language)

25 July

Sweden

25 July

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: A name mentioned in Danmarks gamle Folkeviser
• Sweden: 11th century
• Norway: 12th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway:
  • 15th century, after the Protestant Reformation
  • early 20th century
  • 2000-
• Denmark:
  • 1970-
• Sweden:
  • 1865-1919
  • 1970-
  • 1980-

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Gotland (19th century) see map
  • Gotland (20th century)
  • Nordsverige
• Norway:
  • Vestlandet
  • Nordafjells
• Denmark:
  • Sjælland

Namesakes

• Jakob Erlandsen (died 18 February 1274), Danish Archbishop of Lund (1254–1274)
• Jakob Margido Esp (born 7 June 1943), Norwegian actor and writer
• Jakob Cedergren (born 10 January 1973), Danish actor

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 4,150 people were named Jakob (percentage of first or only given name: 42 %)

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&
Sweden		10481	15105	3	32	10478	15073
Denmark		16436	n.a.	0	n.a.	16436	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	2172	0	0	n.a.	2172
Greenland		338	1399	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		575	738	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		6543	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	6543	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 Jakob (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.