Boy name origins & meanings
- Hebrew : The supplanter
Boy name variations
Family name origins & meanings
- English (mainly Dorset; also East Anglia) : from the Middle English byname or personal name Cobbe, Cobba, or its Old Norse cognate Kobbi, which are probably from an element meaning ‘lump’, used to denote a large man.
- English (mainly Dorset; also East Anglia) : from a reduced form of Jacob.
