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Frederick or Jacob
Which one for a son? "And by the way, dearie, your punctuation sucks canal water!"
-The Ghost of Vivian Vance
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Jacob, hands downI love Jacob and Fred is such an ugly sound.
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Frederick, for sure.c
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Frederick
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Frederick
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Frederick all the way. Much more versatile for one thing: Fred, Derick, Eric ... and Jacob has never appealed to me much as a character. Though I'll be hearing the entire sound track of 'Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat' in my head all day. Which is fine; I like the musical!Where I live, if I saw a reference to a Jacob person, I'd assume he pronounced it YAHkop.
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FrederickStraightforward since I dislike almost everything about Jacob.
The only point in favor of Jacob and against Frederick, is Jake vs. Fred.
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FrederickI love the nns Fred and Freddie, and Jacob makes me think of puke for some reason.
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FrederickI like Frederick.
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I like both, but I have to go with Jacob! Frederick is just too formal for my liking!
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FrederickIt's fresher and dorkier than Jacob.
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FrederickI'm just not a fan of Jacob, I'm not sure why. Frederick has a certain charm, and I think would be cute for a little boy too.
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I like both, but I like Jacob more, even though it's way more popular.
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Frederick! It's one of my very favorites. I'd use it in a heartbeat if it didn't sound bad with my last name.
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Jakob is the middle name of my son, so I also love Jacob. But Frederick is great, too.
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Frederick
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I prefer Jacob to Frederick, but I prefer Freddie to Jake. I guess I'd pick Jacob and hope it didn't get shortened.
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I like them both, but it would be refreshing to see a young Frederick. It's quite an elegant name for a male, while still strong.
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Frederick. It's been growing on me, and Jacob is just too popular.______________________________________________________________________________________
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Jacob.+:)
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I think I prefer Frederick. But since my own name is Fredrika, I would rather choose Jacob.
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FrederickJacob is one of my least faves so a lot of things would have won by default here. I think Frederick is nice though, particularly Freddie.
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