Masculine

Yago

Meaning

a male given name from Latin

Translations

Jakobchen

Jeckel

Jäck

Köbes

Jäggi

Koeeb

Schack

Iago

Jacot

Köb

Frequency

44k
Hyphenated as
Ya‧go
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʝaɡo/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish Yago, from Latin Iācōbus (“James”), from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (ya‘ăqṓḇ, “Jacob”, literally “he will/shall heel”), from עָקֵב (‘āqḗḇ, “heel”) and the Biblical account of the patriarch Jacob's birth in Genesis 25:26. Doublet of Jacobo and Jaime.

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