Given name

Jakove

Jakove is used as a given name.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Jakove is a romanization of Ꙗкове. Ꙗкове comes from Old Church Slavonic, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.

Explained through its name family

Jakove’s family of names

In Old Novgorodian usage, Jakove is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Ꙗкове.

Walk Jakove’s family in the name graph

JakoveꙖкове

The ring: spellings.

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Spellings & scripts 1

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Similar names

If you love Jakove, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Biblical

Jakobs

“heel grabber” · “supplanter”

No U.S. birth series

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Biblical

Jacopone

“he will/shall heel”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Biblical

Jakoba

“she who supplants”

No U.S. birth series

90% boys · 10% girls

Biblical

Jackoba

“she who supplants”

No U.S. birth series

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Hebrew · Biblical

Japhlet

“he will deliver”

No U.S. birth series

86% boys · 14% girls

Biblical

Jabesh

“sorrowful” · “one who is delivered in pain”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Hebrew · Biblical

Jashen

“sleeping”

No U.S. birth series

91% boys · 9% girls

Hebrew · Biblical

Jaddai

“... unclear but perhaps beloved or praised”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

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