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Jake

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //d͡ʒeɪk//

A male given name.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name.

    Brett smiled at him. "I've promised to dance this with Jacob," she laughed. "You've a hell of a biblical name, Jake."

    Her attendant - Jake, she had called him, which seemed an appropriate name for a redheaded, no-neck redneck with the muscles of a dedicated weight lifter - -

    Please “Believe” that Jake Owen will not allow people to diss the LGBTQ community.

Etymology

Originally a medieval variant of Jack; today also used as a diminutive form of Jacob and James.

Forms

plural
Jakes
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).