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Яков
“heel”
Яков (Jakov) is a masculine given name from Serbo-Croatian, ultimately from Hebrew. It is used in Russian and Pannonian Rusyn.
Bulgarian and Russian and rskWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Jacob.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Яков comes from Serbo-Croatian, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Russian usage, Яков developed from יעקב.
Яков’s family of names
In Russian usage, Яков has a diminutive in Яша. In Russian usage, Яков developed from the Hebrew form יעקב. In Russian usage, Яков has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Jacob.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Яков has relatives in 11 languages. Lines run from its Hebrew roots to each of them.
Hebrewwhere Яков comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 46
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- יעקבroot · Hebrew
- Jamesequivalent
- Santiagoequivalent
- JacobPortuguese, Spanish
- Thiagoequivalent
- Diegoequivalent
- Jamieequivalent
- JaimeSpanish
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- Yakovequivalent
- Seamusequivalent
- JakobGerman
- Jacquesequivalent
- JacoboSpanish
- GiacomoItalian
- Jimequivalent
- JakubCzech
- Yakubequivalent
- Jacobusequivalent
- JaapDutch
- Yaacovequivalent
- Jacoequivalent
- Yacobequivalent
- Jacopoequivalent
- Jakabequivalent
- Jiminyequivalent
- Якаўequivalent
- Iacobusequivalent
- Jockelequivalent
- Yakauequivalent
- Iacobequivalent
- Séamusequivalent
- Jaccoequivalent
- Iacopoequivalent
- Yakivequivalent
- Jaumeequivalent
- Jakezequivalent
- Jokūbasequivalent
- Яківequivalent
- يعقوبequivalent
- Iakovequivalent
- Jaakkoequivalent
- Yakupequivalent
- JacóPortuguese
- JakobusGerman
- Я́ковhas masculine form
- Ἰάκωβοςsource · Ancient Greek
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Яков
- Yakov ZeldovichSoviet physicist, physical chemist and cosmologist (1914-1987)
- Yakov SverdlovSoviet politician1885–1919
- Yakov Dzhugashvilifirst child of Josef Stalin (1907–1943)
- Yakov SinaiRussian-American mathematicianborn 1935
- Yakov ProtazanovRussian film director and screenwriter (1881–1945)
- Yakov PerelmanRussian science writer (1882–1942)
- Yakov PavlovHero of the Soviet Union (1917-1981)
- Kobi MarimiIsraeli singer; Israel representative to Eurovision 2019born 1991
- Yakov YurovskyChief executioner of Tsar Nicholas II (1878–1938)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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