Jacopo
The Italian form of Jacob, from a Latin root meaning "supplanter". In Poland it stays rare and strictly male: about 116 men carry it, and none have been given it in recent years.
Jacopo Pronunciation
Jacopo is pronounced yah-TSO-po (/jaˈt͡sɔpɔ/).
What Jacopo means
Where Jacopo comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jacopo comes from Latin Iacobus, the church-Latin form of Hebrew Ya'aqov. The old sense reaches back to the heel. The newborn Jacob gripped his twin brother's heel, and the name grew to mean the one who supplants. Italian took Iacobus and split it along two roads. One led to Giacomo. The other gave Jacopo.
The name belongs to Italian art. Jacopo Tintoretto signed his Venetian canvases with it in the sixteenth century. Jacopo Peri, a Florentine, wrote the music for Dafne around 1598, counted by many as the first opera. Jacopo Bellini and Jacopo Sannazaro carried it before them.
The Polish gloss, trzymający piętę, holds that first picture of the grasping heel. Podstępny, the crafty one, is a later reading laid over the story of Jacob taking his brother's place. Supplanter is the plain English word for it, the name of the one who steps into another's spot.
How many people are named Jacopo
1 in 184019 men in Poland is named Jacopo. 116 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3143 among male names.
Jacopo's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Jacopo as a middle name
Jacopo is a first name for 116 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 96/4 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4781st, between Izasław (5) and Jafar (5).
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#4779 Itzchak5
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#4780 Izasław5
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#4781 Jacopo5
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#4782 Jafar5
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#4783 Jahid5