Jake Fax's Personal Name List

Giacomo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: JA-ko-mo
Italian form of Iacomus (see James). Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) was an Italian composer of operas.
Iacobus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical Latin
Form of Jacob used in the Latin New Testament to refer to the two apostles named James.
Iacov
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Moldovan
Variant of Iacob.
Iago
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Welsh, Galician, Portuguese
Pronounced: YA-gaw(Welsh) ee-AH-go(English) YA-ghuw(Galician)
Welsh and Galician form of Iacobus (see James). This was the name of two early Welsh kings of Gwynedd. It is also the name of the villain in Shakespeare's tragedy Othello (1603).
Jaagup
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Estonian
Estonian form of Jacob (or James).
Jaak
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Estonian, Flemish
Pronounced: YAK(Flemish) ZHAK(Flemish)
Estonian form of Jacob or James, and a Flemish short form of Jacob.
Jaakko
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: YAHK-ko
Finnish form of Jacob (or James).
Jaakob
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish (Rare), Estonian (Rare)
Finnish and Estonian form of Jacob (or James).
Jaakoppi
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish (Rare)
Pronounced: YAH-kop-pee
Finnish form of Jacob (or James).
Jack
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JAK
Derived from Jackin (earlier Jankin), a medieval diminutive of John [1]. There could be some early influence from the unrelated French name Jacques [2]. It is often regarded as an independent name. During the Middle Ages it was very common, and it became a slang word meaning "man", as seen in the terms jack-o'-lantern, jack-in-the-box, lumberjack and so on. It was frequently used in fairy tales and nursery rhymes, such as Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack and Jill, Little Jack Horner, and Jack Sprat.

American writers Jack London (1876-1916) and Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) were two famous bearers of this name. It is also borne by the actor Jack Nicholson (1937-) and the golfer Jack Nicklaus (1940-). Apart from Nicklaus, none of these famous bearers were given the name Jack at birth.

In the United Kingdom this form has been bestowed more frequently than John since the 1990s, being the most popular name for boys from 1996 to 2008.

Jackie
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JAK-ee
Diminutive of Jack or Jacqueline. A notable bearer was baseball player Jackie Robinson (1919-1972), the first African American to play in Major League Baseball.
Jacob
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Jewish, Biblical
Other Scripts: יַעֲקֹב(Hebrew)
Pronounced: JAY-kəb(English) YA-kawp(Dutch) YAH-kawp(Swedish, Norwegian) YAH-kob(Danish)
From the Latin Iacob, which was from the Greek Ἰακώβ (Iakob), which was from the Hebrew name יַעֲקֹב (Yaʿaqov). In the Old Testament Jacob (later called Israel) is the son of Isaac and Rebecca and the father of the twelve founders of the twelve tribes of Israel. He was born holding his twin brother Esau's heel, and his name is explained as meaning "holder of the heel" or "supplanter", because he twice deprived his brother of his rights as the firstborn son (see Genesis 27:36). Other theories claim that it is in fact derived from a hypothetical name like יַעֲקֹבְאֵל (Yaʿaqovʾel) meaning "may God protect".

The English names Jacob and James derive from the same source, with James coming from Latin Iacomus, a later variant of the Latin New Testament form Iacobus. Unlike English, many languages do not have separate spellings for the two names.

In England, Jacob was mainly regarded as a Jewish name during the Middle Ages [1], though the variant James was used among Christians. Jacob came into general use as a Christian name after the Protestant Reformation. In America, although already moderately common, it steadily grew in popularity from the early 1970s to the end of the 1990s, becoming the top ranked name from 1999 to 2012.

A famous bearer was Jacob Grimm (1785-1863), the German linguist and writer who was, with his brother Wilhelm, the author of Grimm's Fairy Tales.

Jacobo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: kha-KO-bo
Spanish form of Iacobus, the New Testament Latin form of James. The apostles are also commonly denoted Santiago in Spanish.
Jacques
Gender: Masculine
Usage: French
Pronounced: ZHAK
French form of Iacobus, the New Testament Latin form of James.
Jaka
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Slovene
Slovene form of Jacob (or James).
Jake
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JAYK
Medieval variant of Jack. It is also sometimes used as a short form of Jacob.
Jakes
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: YA-kehs
Basque form of Jacob (or James).
Jakób
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish (Archaic), Kashubian (Archaic)
Archaic Polish and Kashubian form of Jacob.
Jakob
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Dutch, Slovene
Pronounced: YA-kawp(German, Icelandic, Dutch) YAH-kawp(Swedish, Norwegian) YAH-kob(Danish)
Form of Jacob (or James) used in several languages.
Jakov
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Јаков(Serbian, Macedonian)
Serbian, Croatian and Macedonian form of Jacob (or James).
Jakub
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Polish, Czech, Slovak
Pronounced: YA-koop
Polish, Czech and Slovak form of Jacob (or James). In Polish and Slovak this refers to both the Old Testament patriarch and the New Testament apostles, while in Czech this is used only for the apostles (with Jákob for the patriarch).
Jaques
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature
Pronounced: JAY-kweez(English)
Variant of Jacques used by Shakespeare for a character in his play As You Like It (1599).
Jock
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish [1]
Pronounced: JAHK(American English) JAWK(British English)
Scots form of Jack. Among the English, this is a slang term for a Scotsman.
Jockie
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
Scots diminutive of Jack.
Jocky
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scottish
Scots diminutive of Jack.
Jokūbas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Lithuanian
Lithuanian form of Jacob (or James).
Yaakov
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: יַעֲקֹב(Hebrew)
Hebrew form of Jacob.
Yago
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish
Pronounced: GYA-gho
Spanish form of Iacobus (see James). The form Santiago refers more specifically to the New Testament apostles.
Yakup
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Turkish
Turkish form of Jacob.
Yaqub
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: يعقوب(Arabic)
Pronounced: ya‘-KOOB
Arabic form of Yaʿaqov (see Jacob) appearing in the Quran.
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