Message: "Jacoby?" - Behind the Name

Jacoby?

by Laurasaurus (guest)

12/31/2007, 4:58 AM

Hey Guys,
I heard this name on T.V somewhere (i think it was some college basketball player or something) but I really like it. Jacoby is a form of Jacob that means Supplanter and is pronounced like Jak-Oh-Bee. I think it's kind of a cool twist on the rediculously popular Jacob and you could use the nick names Jack, Jake, or Coby if you wanted to. I love the name Jack but have been looking for a more formal name and I'm not appealed by Jackson because it has a very southern feel with Andrew Jackson. So I think Jacoby might be a better option. Opinions?

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- brydz (guest)

12/31/2007, 4:39 PM

I like the spelling Jacobi as well. The main pronunciation i have heard in use is Jah-coh-bee but i rather Jack-oh-bee like you said.
My fave combination is Jacobi Patrick.

- Anastasia-Lynn (SnoGurl)

12/31/2007, 9:21 AM

It just makes me think of the movie Princess Diaries 2, where Mia's engaged to the guy named Andrew Jacoby (Jacobi?)

- Donham

12/31/2007, 8:14 AM

My son had a little boy named Jacoby in his class in 1st grade. He pronounced it Ja-COB-ee. I don't like it.

- Mireio (Nirvanna) +1

12/31/2007, 7:26 AM

I prefer just Jacob, but I actually think Jacoby is quite nice. I've also heard it pronounced 'ja-COH-bee', but I think 'JAK-oh-bee' sounds better.

- MelanieRose

12/31/2007, 1:59 PM

shuold've been under the original message, sorry

There is a player on the Boston Red Sox by the name of Jacoby Ellsbury. I don't really care for it and the announcers always butcher anyway and call him Jacob. He is a fantastic baseball player however.

This message was edited 12/31/2007, 2:00 PM

- penguiny7

12/31/2007, 6:54 AM

I had a baby name book in eighth or ninth grade that had Jacobi (pronounced ja-COH-be) as a feminine form of Jacob. I really liked it for about a year. Therefore Jacoby looks like an alternative spelling of Jacobi to me, and I think of it as more of a girl's name. But I think it would work on a boy too, and for all that book knows maybe it really is a boy's name. I personally haven't liked the name for years, but I think it's interesting and would like to see it on someone.

This message was edited 12/31/2007, 11:28 AM

- Jonquil

12/31/2007, 6:30 AM

Jacobi is a surname. Jacoby sounds like that. I'd stick to the tried and true Jacob, although you could try the Hebrew verson Yaakov(pronounced yah-uh-kov).

- Murasaki (on a different computer) (guest)

12/31/2007, 5:53 AM

Looks like a weird nn for Jacob. Sticking a y to a name doesn't really make a new na,e.

- afmastro

12/31/2007, 5:10 AM

It seems contrived to me, like someone thought they would just stick a y at the end of Jacob for some arbitrary reason.

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