Gender Masculine
Usage Welsh, Galician, Portuguese
Meaning & History
Welsh and Galician form of Iacobus (see James). This was the name of two early Welsh kings of Gwynedd. It is also the name of the villain in Shakespeare's tragedy Othello (1603).
Related Names
Other Languages & CulturesYacoub, Yakub, Yaqoob, Yaqub (Arabic) Hagop, Hakob, Yakob (Armenian) Yaqub (Azerbaijani) Jakes (Basque) Yakau (Belarusian) Jacob, James (Biblical) Iakob, Iakobos (Biblical Greek) Ya'aqov (Biblical Hebrew) Iacob, Iacobus (Biblical Latin) Yakov (Bulgarian) Jaume, Jaumet (Catalan) Jago (Cornish) Jakov (Croatian) Jakub, Jákob (Czech) Jacob, Jakob, Ib, Jeppe (Danish) Jacob, Jacobus, Jakob, James, Sjaak, Cobus, Coos, Jaap, Kobus, Koos, Sjakie (Dutch) Jacob, James, Seamus, Jae, Jai, Jay, Jaye, Jaymes, Jem, Jemmy, Jim, Jimi, Jimmie, Jimmy (English) Jaagup, Jaak, Jaakob (Estonian) Jákup (Faroese) Semisi (Fijian) Jaakko, Jaakob, Jaakoppi, Jaska, Jimi (Finnish) Jaak, Kobe (Flemish) Jacques, Jacky, Jacquy (French) Japik (Frisian) Iakob, Koba (Georgian) Jakob, Jockel (German) Iakovos (Greek) Yaƙubu (Hausa) Iakopa, Kimo (Hawaiian) Yaakov, Yakov, Akiba, Akiva (Hebrew) Jakab, Jákob (Hungarian) Jakob (Icelandic) Séamus, Seamus, Shamus, Sheamus, Séamas (Irish) Giacomo, Giacobbe, Iacopo, Jacopo, Lapo (Italian) Jacob (Jewish) Iacomus, Jacobus (Late Roman) Jēkabs (Latvian) Jaques (Literature) Jokūbas (Lithuanian) Jakov (Macedonian) Hemi (Māori) Jacob, Jakob (Norwegian) Jakub, Kuba (Polish) Yaqub (Quranic) Iacob (Romanian) Yakov, Yasha (Russian) Hamish, Jamie (Scottish) Seumas (Scottish Gaelic) Jakov, Jakša (Serbian) Jakub (Slovak) Jakob, Žak, Jaka, Jaša (Slovene) Jacobo, Jaime, Yago (Spanish) Jacob, Jakob (Swedish) Semisi (Tongan) Yakup (Turkish) Yakiv (Ukrainian) Yaqoob (Urdu) Yacouba (Western African) Kapel, Koppel, Yankel (Yiddish)
Surname DescendantSantiago (Portuguese)
Place Name DescendantSantiago (Portuguese)
Popularity
People think this name is
classic mature formal devious strong strange serious
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Entry updated April 23, 2024