Given name & surname · also Turkish
Jakup
Jakup is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Albanian.
Original TurkishYakup
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Jakup comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish یعقوب (yaʼkub), from Arabic يَعْقُوب, from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿaqōv).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Jakup’s family of names
Jakup shares a linguistic root with the Turkish form YAKUP. Jakup has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Jakub. In Turkish usage, Jakup has a conventional equivalent in the German form JAKOBUS.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Jakup has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Biblical Hebrew roots to each of them.
4 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Similar names
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Jacó
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>99% boys
Jaddai
“... unclear but perhaps beloved or praised”
>99% boys
Japhlet
“he will deliver”
86% boys · 14% girls
Jashen
“sleeping”
91% boys · 9% girls
Jahwe
Jahwe is a given name from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in German and Polish.
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Jebus
“trodden underfoot” · “he will trample down”
>99% boys