Jakob
Male#690 most common in Croatia564 people in Croatia
- Meaning:
- Supplanter, holder of the heel
- Origin:
- Hebrew
About the name Jakob
Form of Jacob/James, from Hebrew Ya'aqov.
Name day and nicknames
- Name day:
- July 25 (sv. Jakov)
Popularity with newborns
Jakob has not appeared on the annual list of the most popular newborn names. That list covers the 50 most common names for each sex, so the name was given to fewer children than the 50th name of the year — not to none.
People with this name in Croatia
564 people in Croatia are called Jakob, according to the 2021 census. That is #690 among all the names in Imenko.
Where the name is found
Jakob is recorded in 13 of Croatia's 21 counties.
Bjelovarsko-bilogorskaBrodsko-posavskaGrad ZagrebIstarskaKoprivničko-križevačkaKrapinsko-zagorskaMeđimurskaOsječko-baranjskaPožeško-slavonskaPrimorsko-goranskaVaraždinskaVukovarsko-srijemskaZagrebačka
Sources
Counts of people living in Croatia come from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics' 2021 census, which suppresses any figure below 10. Yearly birth figures come from its annual list of the most popular newborn names. Meaning, origin, name day and nicknames are curated by Imenko.