Given name · also Ancient Greek
Iacobus
“May He Heel”
Iacobus is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Latin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Iacobus goes back to Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿăqōḇ), meaning “May He Heel.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Iacobus comes from Ancient Greek, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος, from Ancient Greek Ἰακώβ, from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿăqōḇ, “May He Heel”), from Biblical Hebrew עָקַב.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Iacobus’s family of names
In Latin usage, Iacobus has a later derivative in James. In Latin usage, Iacobus has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Jacob. In Spanish usage, Iacobus has a related form in Jaime.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Iacobus has relatives in 17 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Iacobus comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 37
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Jamesderivative · Middle English, French
- Santiagoequivalent
- Jacobderivative · Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål
- Diegoequivalent
- Yakovequivalent
- Jakobderivative · Norwegian Bokmål
- Jacquesequivalent
- Jacoboequivalent
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- Giacomoequivalent
- Jimequivalent
- JakubCzech
- Yagoderivative · English
- Yakubequivalent
- Jacobusequivalent
- Iagoderivative · English
- Yaacovequivalent
- Yacobequivalent
- Jacopoequivalent
- Jagoderivative · English
- Chaimeequivalent
- Séamusequivalent
- Iacopoequivalent
- Jaumeequivalent
- יעקבequivalent
- يعقوبequivalent
- Jaakkoequivalent
- Yakupequivalent
- Xácomedescendant · Galician
- Ġakbuderivative · Maltese
- JacóPortuguese
- Jokūbasborrowing · Lithuanian
- Zhakderivative · Albanian
- Séamasderivative · Irish
- JakobusGerman
- Xacobeequivalent
- Яковequivalent
- Ἰάκωβοςsource · Ancient Greek
People named Iacobus
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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Archippus
“first horse” · “ruler of horses”
>99% boys
Tyrannus
“tyrant” · “of the tower”
>99% boys
Didymus
“twin”
95% boys · 5% girls