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DANIEL
Gender Masculine
Usage English, Jewish, French, German, Scandinavian,
Polish, Czech, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Biblical
Pronounced DAN-yul (English), dan-YEL (French)
From the Hebrew name Daniyel meaning "God is my judge". Daniel was a Hebrew prophet whose story is told in the Book of
Daniel in the Old Testament. He lived during the Jewish captivity in Babylon, where he served in the court of the king, rising
to prominence by interpreting the king's dreams. The book also presents Daniel's four visions of the end of the world. Famous
bearers of this name include English author Daniel Defoe, Swiss mathematician Daniel Bernoulli, and American frontiersman
Daniel Boone.
JACOB
Gender Masculine
Usage English, Dutch, Scandinavian
Pronounced
JAY-kub [key]
From the Latin Jacobus, which was from the Greek Iakobos, which was from the Hebrew name
Ya'aqov which meant "holder of the heel" or "supplanter". The biblical Jacob (later called Israel) was born holding his twin
brother Esau's heel. He was the son of Isaac and Rebecca and the father of the twelve founders of the twelve tribes of Israel.
A famous bearer of this name was Jacob Grimm, the German linguist and writer who was, with his brother Wilhelm, the author
of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'.
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