Jacoba name - Meaning of Jacoba
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- Gender
- Feminine
- Lucky Number
- 5
- Usage
- Dutch, Hebrew
- Pronounced
- yah-KO-bah
- Jacoba Meaning
- Feminine form of Jacob. Jacoba is a Dutch feminine form of Jacob. Jacob is derived from the Hebrew name "Yaakov", which means "following after". This is derived from the Hebrew words "Yahweh", which means "God", and "aqeb", which means "heel". In the Bible, Jacob was born after Esau, holding after Esau"s heel.
Jacoba Related Names
Variants: Jacobina, Jacobine, Coba
Diminutive: Coba
Masculine Forms: Jaap, Jacob, Jacobus, Jakob, Sjaak, Sjakie
Other Languages: Zhaklina (Bulgarian), Žaklina (Croatian), Jacobine, Bine (Danish), Jacqueline, Jaci, Jackalyn, Jacki, Jackie, Jacklyn, Jaclyn, Jacquelyn, Jaki, Jakki, Jaqueline, Jaquelyn (English), Jacquetta, Jacqui (English (British) ), Jacqueline, Jacquette (French), Zhaklina (Macedonian), Jacobine (Norwegian), Żaklina (Polish), Jamesina (Scottish)
