Given name · also Latin
Jokūbas
Jokūbas is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Lithuanian.
Original LatinIacobus
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Jokūbas comes from Latin, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Lithuanian usage, Jokūbas developed from Ἰάκωβος.
Jokūbas’s family of names
In Lithuanian usage, Jokūbas developed from the Ancient Greek form Ἰάκωβος. In Lithuanian usage, Jokūbas has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Jakub. In Lithuanian usage, Jokūbas has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Giacomo.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Jokūbas has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Jokūbas comes from · 1 name
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.
Across languages 34
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Iacobussource · Latin
- Jamesequivalent
- Santiagoequivalent
- Jacobequivalent
- Thiagoequivalent
- Diegoequivalent
- Yakovequivalent
- Seamusequivalent
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- Jakobequivalent
- Jacquesequivalent
- Jacoboequivalent
- GiacomoItalian
- Jimequivalent
- JakubCzech
- Yakubequivalent
- Jacobusequivalent
- Yaacovequivalent
- Jacoequivalent
- Yacobequivalent
- Jacopoequivalent
- يعقوبequivalent
- Jaakkoequivalent
- Jacóequivalent
- Yakupequivalent
- JakobusGerman
- Яковequivalent
- Jiminyequivalent
- Séamusequivalent
- Jaccoequivalent
- Iacopoequivalent
- Jaumeequivalent
- יעקבequivalent
- Jakezequivalent
- Ἰάκωβοςroot · Ancient Greek
People named Jokūbas
- Jokūbas ŠernasLithuanian politician (1888-1926)
- Jokūbas GintvainisLithuanian basketball player (born 1994)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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