Jake
Jake is an English-speaking male given name , which occurs particularly in the USA.
Origin and meaning
Jake can be a diminutive of the first name Jakob , but first appeared in the Middle Ages as a variant of Jack .
Name bearer
- Jake Arrieta (* 1986), American baseball pitcher
- Jake T. Austin (* 1994), American actor
- Jake Beckley (1867-1918) American baseball player
- Jake Bidwell (* 1993), English football player
- Jake Brenk (* 1982), American ice hockey player
- Jake Brown (skateboarder) (born 1974), Australian skateboarder
- Jake Brown (biathlete) (born 1992), American biathlete
- Jake Bugg (* 1994), British singer-songwriter
- Jake Busey (born 1971), American actor
- Jake Buxton (* 1985), English football player
- Jake Caskey (* 1994), English soccer player
- Jake Chapman (born 1966), British artist
- Jake Cherry (born 1996), American actor
- Jake Cody (* 1988), English poker player
- Jake Colhouer (1922–1998) American football player
- Jake Delhomme (* 1975), American football player
- Jake Dowell (* 1985), American ice hockey player
- Jake Eberts (1941–2012), Canadian film producer
- Jake Frazier (≈1890-), American jazz musician
- Jake Garn (* 1932), American politician
- Jake Gyllenhaal (* 1980), American actor
- Jake Gymini (* 1968), American wrestler
- Jake Hanna (1931-2010), American jazz drummer
- Jake Heggie (* 1961), American composer and pianist
- Jake Herbert (* 1985), American wrestler
- Jake Hess (1927-2004), American gospel singer
- Jake Hoffman (* 1981), American actor
- Jake Holmes (born 1939), American folk singer and songwriter
- Jake Jackson (* 1971), American rock musician
- Jake Kasdan (* 1974), American film director and producer
- Jake LaMotta (1921-2017), American boxer
- Jake Lanum (1896–1968) American football player
- Jake E. Lee (* 1957), American guitarist
- Jake Lloyd (* 1989), American actor
- Jake Long (born 1985), American football player
- Jake Mandell (* 1975), American musician
- Jake Nava (* 19 **), British music video director
- Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey (1946–2016), Ghanaian politician
- Jake Owen (* 1981), American country singer
- Jake Peavy (born 1981), American baseball player
- Jake Plummer (born 1974), American football player
- Jake Roberts (born 1955), American wrestler
- Jake Schindler (* 1989), American poker player
- Jake Shears (born 1978), American singer
- Jake Shields (* 1979), American mixed martial arts fighter
- Jake Shimabukuro (* 1976), Hawaiian ukulele player
- Jake Silbermann (* 1983), American actor and model
- Jake Slazenger ( Mike Paradinas; * 1971), British musician
- Jake Steed (* 1972), American porn actor
- Jake Thomas (* 1990), American film actor
- Jake Virtanen (* 1996), Canadian ice hockey player
- Jake Weber (born 1964), British actor
- Jake Williams (* 1974), British music producer
- Jake Zamansky (* 1981), American ski racer
Fictional characters
- Jake Boyman is the name Lisa Simpson used to sneak into the male part of the school in the episode Equation with a Stranger in the gendered school.
- Jake Wendell , 10 year old boy of the Wendell family in the series Crash Canyon
additional
- Big Jake , a 1971 American western
- Jake (spirit) , a Jamaican ginger extract
- Jake 2.0 , an American television series
- Jake and McCabe - Through Thick and Thin , an American television series