Listen to the German pronunciation of Jakob. The speaker is a native speaker of Standard German from Schleswig-Holstein / Northern Germany:
Typically born before 1920 or after 1980
German short form of Jacobus, a Latin form of Ιακωβος (Iakobos), a Greek form of the Hebrew name יַעֲקֹב (Ya'aqov) of uncertain meaning
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