Jacob

Hebrew

"supplanter"

Jacob Origin and Meaning

Variation of Coby

Jacob Rank in US Top 1000

# 41 in the US

Jacob Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 146 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Jacob

• 41 US 2024
• 146 Nameberry 2025
• 19 Canada 2024
• 58 Future 2035
• 30 England 2024
• 27 scotland 2024
• 64 Ireland 2024
• 60 Australia 2024
• 56 New Zealand 2024
• 19 Germany 2017
• 85 Netherlands 2015
• 240 Mexico 2021
• 64 sweden 2022

20 Names Similar to Jacob

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Famous People Named Jacob

• Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma President of South Africa
• Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm German philologist, jurist, and mythologist.
• Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Gyllenhaal American actor.
• Jacob Edward "Jake" Peavy American baseball pitcher.
• Jacob Anthony deGrom American baseball pitcher.
• Jacob Mark "Jake" Pitts American guitarist.
• Jacob Vargas Mexican,American actor.
• Jacob Dolson Cox American politician; 28th Governor of Ohio.
• Jacob Artist American actor and singer.
• Jacob Daniel Handy American actor.
• Jacob Tremblay Canadian actor.
• Jacob Seth Lofland American actor.
• Jacob Hubner German entomologist.
• Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael Dutch landscape painter.
• Jacob Whitesides American singer
• Jacob Tyler "J.T." Realmuto American baseball player.
• Jacob Loucks Devers U.S. Army general
• Jacob Warner birth name of Jack Leonard "J. L." Warner, Canadian,American film executive
• Jacob August Riis Danish,American journalist and activist
• Jacob Bernoulli Swiss mathematician
• Jacob Pavlovich Adler (born Yankev P. Adler) Ukrainian,American Yiddish actor
• Jacob Edward "Jake" Hoffman American actor
• Jacob "Jake" Dalton American artistic gymnast
• (Rolf) Jacob Sartorius American pop singer
• Jacob Batalon Filipino,American actor
• Jacob Emerson "Jake" Fishman (b. 2008) son of actress Courtney Thorne,Smith
• Jacob Bryan Fisher (b. 2019) son of American singer,songwriter Carrie Underwood and American former professional ice hockey player Mike Fisher
• Ryan Paevey (born Ryan Jacob Paevey Vlieger), American model and actor
• Jacob Erwin Wetterling (b. 1978) 11 year old American boy who was abducted and murdered in 1989

The name Jacob in Pop Culture

• Jacob Marley character from Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"
• Jacob Black werewolf character in the "Twilight" series
• Jacob character from TV's "Lost"
• Jacob David "Jake" Harper character on TV's "Two and a Half Men"
• Jacob Jankowski main character in book/movie "Water for Elephants"
• Jacob Portman main character in the "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" series by Ransom Riggs
• Jacob "Jake" Pentecost character in "Pacific Rim"
• Jacob Carter character on TV's "Stargate: SG,1"
• Jacob Gallagher character on British soap "Emmerdale"
• Jacob "Jake" Moon character on British soap "EastEnders"
• Jacob "Jake" Sisko character on TV's "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"
• Jacob Daniel Johnson character in the Nightmare on Elm Street series
• Jacobitism 18th century political movement to restore the Roman Catholic Stuart King James II of England to the throne
• Jacob "Jake" Barnes character in Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises"
• Jacob a character in "The Forest of Hands and Teeth" by Carrie Ryan
• Jacob Kowalski character in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
• Jacob Palmer character in film "Crazy, Stupid, Love"