Jacob

Also Guernésiais: http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/590676737.pdf

Also Portuguese:

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https://www.behindthename.com/name/jacob/top/brazil
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Jacob#Portuguese
https://pt.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Jacob
https://forebears.io/forenames/jacob

Also used in Spanish: https://www.ine.es/widgets/nombApell/index.shtml?L=1

Also Judeo-Anglo-Norman: http://heraldry.sca.org/names/jewish.html

Also used in French: https://www.meilleursprenoms.com/popularite-prenom/Jacob

Also used in Romansh: https://rm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annamengia_Bertogg -- her father, Jacob Bertogg
Https://sursassiala.ch/2015/01/15/familienforschung/
Https://nossaistorgia.ch/entries/Y9JDKxGrMOR
Https://www.portraitarchiv.ch/portrait?page=56
Http://www.annalas.ch/persunas/display/q:Jacob

Also Banatswabian: https://ofb.genealogy.net/famreport.php?ofb=werschetz&ID=I24047&nachname=Adelman&modus=&lang=de
https://ofb.genealogy.net/famreport.php?ofb=werschetz&ID=I63739&nachname=Alb&modus=&lang=de

Add Usage: German, Finnish

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Pronounced: JAY-kəb (English), YA-kawp (Dutch, German), YA-kawb (Swedish, Norwegian), YA-gob (Danish), YAH-kob (Finnish)

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This name is used in several languages.

In 2018, 12 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) Jacob who is registered male with the Social Security Administration. It is the 54th most common male first name for living U.S. citizens.

It is said in the "Similar names" section that the change to the Spanish usage of this name could be "Yago" but it could be this name as well:

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•Saint Jacob — Sant Iacob
•Sant Iacob — Santiacob
•Santicob — Santiago.

Jacob is the version of my name that I prefer. Jacob and James are also the same name but Jacob is a lot better. In many languages there is only one version for both of them.

I think Jacob is a name suitable for all ages! And the comments about the name being too old fashioned, no way, the Jacob's I know are born in early 2000's.

Jacob both in Usage & Pronunciation
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: hah-KO-b (Spanish)

Number one for boys in 2005.

Every young boy I meet seems to bear this name, but there are surpisingly few in my high school, given the popularity of the name in the late eighties/early nineties.

Jacob is also Biblical. He was the son of Isaac, brother of Esau, and father of twelve patriarchs of Israel. Jacob wrestled with God and forced God to bless him, so God gave Jacob the new name of Israel (meaning 'one who has been strong against God').