Name: Job
Gender: Male
Usage: Job, of hebrew origin, is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Job are in general originating from France, Israel, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Job is: Persecuted.
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Numerology of the first name Job: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 9. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: humanitarian, self-sacrificing, idealistic, giving, altruist, devoted, romantic.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Compassionate, Idealistic
Ruling planet: Mars
Colors: Red
Gemstones: Bloodstone
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The name Job is ranked on the 4,873rd position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 63500 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Job has three characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Job for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Job is a major figure in the Bible. Persons with the same given name include:
- Patriarch Job of Alexandria, Greek Patriarch of Alexandria from 954 to 960
- Patriarch Job of Moscow (died 1607), first Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and a saint of the Orthodox Church
- Job of Pochayiv (c. 1551-1651), Ukrainian Orthodox monk and Eastern Orthodox saint
- Job (Osacky) (1946-2009), archbishop of the Orthodox Church
- Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde (1630-1698), Dutch painter
- Sir Job Charlton, 1st Baronet (c. 1614-1697), barrister, member and briefly Speaker of the House of Commons of England, and judge
- Job Charnock (c. 1630–1692), English East India Company administrator traditionally regarded as the founder of the city of Calcutta
- Job Cohen (born 1947), leader of the Dutch Labour Party
- Job Durfee (1790-1847), jurist and member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
- Job Harriman (1861-1925), vice presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America and founder of a utopian community
- Job Dean Jessop (1926-2001), American jockey
- Job Koech Kinyor (born 1990), Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Job Mann (1795-1873), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
- Job de Roincé (1896–1981), French journalist and writer
- Job ben Solomon or Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (1701–1773), Muslim transported to America as a slave
- Job Tausinga (born 1951), Minister for Education and Human Resources Development of the Solomon Islands
- Job Throckmorton (1545-1601), English religious pamphleteer and Member of Parliament
Biblical name, borne by the eponymous hero of the Book of Job, a man of exemplary patience, whose faith was severely tested by God's apparently motiveless maltreatment of him. His name, appropriately enough, means ‘persecuted’ in Hebrew. His story was a favourite one in the Middle Ages and formed the subject of miracle plays. The name was used among Puritans and Christian fundamentalists, but is currently out of favour.
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