Job

Hebrew

"persecuted"

Job Origin and Meaning

Variation of Joplin

Job Rank in US Top 1000

# 909 in the US

Job Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 5470 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Job

• 776 Nameberry 2023
• 98 Netherlands 2024

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Famous People Named Job

• Job Biblical figure tested by God
• Saint Job of Pochayiv Ukrainian Orthodox monk
• Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde Dutch painter
• Jobe "Job" Charnock administrator of the English East India Company; founder of Calcutta, India
• (Marius) Job Cohen Dutch labor party leader and cabinet member
• Job Harriman American socialist leader
• Job Mann U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
• Job ben Solomon (born Ayuba Suleiman Diallo) Senegalese,born author of one of the first American slave narratives
• Steve Jobs founder of Apple

The name Job in Pop Culture

• Job Anderson character in R. L. Stevenson's "Treasure Island"
• Job little boy in movie "Children of the Corn" (not the creepy boy, the other one)
• George Oscar "GOB" Bluth II (pronounced "Job") character on TV's "Arrested Development"