Popular Names
JACOB Name
| Name: | Jacob |
| Gender: | Male and Female |
| Origin/Usage: | Hebrew |
| Meaning: | Supplanter |
Jacob Riis: "When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."