Given name & surname
Jakša
Jakša is a surname. It is used in Czech and Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Jakša is a diminutive of Jakov. Jakov comes from Old Church Slavonic, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Jakša is a diminutive of Jakov.
Jakša’s family of names
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Jakša is a diminutive of Jakov.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Jakša
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Jakša, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Jakoba
“she who supplants”
90% boys · 10% girls
Jackoba
“she who supplants”
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Jakobs
“heel grabber” · “supplanter”
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Jakove
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Jabesh
“sorrowful” · “one who is delivered in pain”
>99% boys
Jaddai
“... unclear but perhaps beloved or praised”
>99% boys
Jabezz
“sorrowful” · “one who is delivered in pain”
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Japhlet
“he will deliver”
86% boys · 14% girls