Name: Akiva
Gender: Unisex (Male and Female)
Usage: Akiva, of hebrew origin, is not a popular first name. It is more often used as a unisex (male and female) name.
People having the name Akiva are in general originating from Israel.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Akiva is: Grasped by the heel, Supplanted.
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Numerology of the first name Akiva: 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 8. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: ambitious, successful, realistic, powerful, authoritative, courageous, leading.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Leader, Visionary
Ruling planet: Saturn
Colors: Black, Purple
Gemstones: Ruby, Amethyst
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The name Akiva is ranked on the 28,289th position of the most used names. It means that this name is rarely used.
We estimate that there are at least 6900 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Akiva has five characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Akiva for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Akiva or Akiba is a Jewish-ethnic name, arising in Aramaic from Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב, and thus cognate to English Jacob.
Among Jews, "Ya'akov" and "Akiva" - though essentially variants of the same name - are treated as completely separate, arousing different historical and religious associations: the one recalls the Biblical Patriarch Jacob, the other relates to the Roman period Rabbi Akiva ben Joseph.
Those bearing it include:
- Akiva ben Joseph (c. 50 – c. 135 CE), Judean religious leader
- Akiva Eger (1761–1837), central European religious leader
- Akiva Ehrenfeld (1923-2012), president of Kiryat Mattersdorf, Jerusalem
- Akiva Librecht (1876–1958), Israeli politician
- Akiva Govrin (1902-1980), Israeli politician
- Akiva Vroman (1912–1989), Israeli geologist
- Akiva Yaglom (1921–2007), Soviet & Russian scientist
- Akiva Orr (born 1931), Israeli writer & political
- Akiva Nof (born 1936), Israeli politician & song-writer
- Akiva Eldar (born 1945), Israeli journalist and author
- Akiva Goldsman (born 1962), American writer
- Akiva Tatz (fl. c. 2000), a South African religious leader & writer
- Akiva Grunblatt (fl. 2000s), American religious leader
- Akiva Schaffer (born 1977), American writer & comedian
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