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Usage
Old Swedish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish
Faroese
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Variant spelling (English and German) of Jakob [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
See Jacobus
Male
Jacobinpoika
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Jacobsen
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Jacobson
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Jacobssen
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Jacobsson
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Jacobssøn
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Jacobsøn
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Female
Jacobdatter
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Jacobdotter
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Jacobintytär
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Jacobsdatter
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Jacobsdotter
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Jacobsdóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Jacob
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Genitive: |
Jacobs
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- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Jacob
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Accusative: |
Jacob
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Dative: |
Jacobi
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Genitive: |
Jacobs
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Jacob
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Genitive: |
Jacobin
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Partitive: |
Jacobia
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Jacob
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Genitive: |
Jacobs
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Jacob
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Genitive: |
Jacobs
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Name Day
Denmark
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1 May
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Jacob Hveding (1736-?), Norwegian lawyer, Faroese løgmaður (1772-1786)
- Jacob Christian (J. C.) Jacobsen (2 September 1811 – 30 April 1887), Danish industrialist and philanthropist best known for founding the brewery Carlsberg
- Stig Henning Jacob Puggaard Paludan (7 February 1896 - 26 September 1975), Danish author
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 987 people were named Jacob (percentage of first or only given name: 31 %) [6]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Denmark[8] |
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20275 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
20275 |
n.a. |
Sweden[9] |
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10859 |
14497 |
5 |
17 |
10854 |
14480 |
Finland[10] |
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n.a. |
997 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
997 |
Greenland[11] |
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65 |
181 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[12] |
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18 |
21 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[13] |
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3694 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
3694 |
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. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [9][8][13][10]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [14]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Jacob (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Navnemode og modenavne (1993)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables