Boy · English pet form of a Hebrew name
Jake
Say it: JAYK
Meaning
A pet form of Jacob, from Hebrew Ya'aqov, linked in Genesis to 'heel' and 'supplanter'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Given as a full name in the US since the 1800s and popular in the 1990s.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 2000s
In the United States
- 125,517 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 2004, about 1 in 444 boys
- 1,027 babies in 2020
Through the ages
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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