Boy · Hebrew
Jabez
Say it: JAY-bez
Meaning
Hebrew Ya'bets. 1 Chronicles 4:9 explains it by a wordplay on otsev 'pain', because his mother bore him in pain.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Used in England and New England from the 17th to 19th centuries.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 1,059 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 2002, about 1 in 19,000 boys
- 21 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Biblical WorldAbout 1200 BC to AD 100
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
Used by
The family of the name
| French | Jabès |
|---|---|
| Spanish | Jabes |
| Hebrew | Yabetz |
Famous bearers
- Jabez, man who prayed for blessing in 1 Chronicles 4
- Jabez Bunting, English Methodist leader
- Jabez Stone, character in The Devil and Daniel Webster
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Where this comes from
- The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
- Puritan church and town records of England and New England
- Parish baptism registers
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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