Comments (Pronunciation Only)

Spanish pronunciation: kha-KOB.
An archaic pronunciation is "jaa-cub".
Swedish Pronunciation: YA-kob.
The Dutch pronunciation is more like Yah-Coab or something like that.Anyway it's not an 'aw' sound, but more like an 'oa' like coal.
I love it. It is is pronounced jay-cub.
Pronounced YAH-kawp in Czech, Slovak, Polish, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Slovene and Croatian.
Yaqoob in Arabic (Ya-qoob).
Pronounced "zhah-KAWB" in French.
Pronounced YAH-kopp in German.
Listen to the German pronunciation of Jacob here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html
My husband is of Dutch heritage and has a grandfather Jacobus. That is also our oldest son's given name. It is also my understanding that the "J" is pronounced as a "Y" in The Nederlands. He goes by Kobus.
Although the correct English pronunciation of the name is Jay-kob, from my travels in Denmark where this is a very popular name it would be pronounced Ya-cob. As far as I know the J is always a Y sound in Danish.

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