Jacques
The French form of the name Poland spells Jakub, both grown from Latin Iacobus. Only about 167 men here carry it, so one turns up rarely among all the Jakubs and Kubas.
Jacques Pronunciation
What Jacques means
Where Jacques comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jacques reached French from the Latin Iacobus. From that single Latin root spread a wide family of names across Europe, and French took its own path with a soft ending and silent letters at the close.
The short meaning, "supplanter", in Polish "chwytający za piętę", was fastened to the name through the biblical Jacob. He was born gripping his twin brother's heel. That grip became a byword for the one who takes another's place. The sense of "supplanter" was attached to the name later, long after the sound of it had settled into Latin.
On a Polish class register, Jacques stands apart. It sits among the Jakubs and Kubas as the French cousin of a name Poland spells its own way. A child called Jacques wears the French coat of the old Latin Iacobus.
How many people are named Jacques
1 in 127821 men in Poland is named Jacques. 167 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2485 among male names.
Jacques as a middle name
Jacques is a first name for 167 men in Poland and a middle name for another 209, a 44/56 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 474th, between Francesco (209) and Marcus (209).
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#472 Andrés210
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#473 Francesco209
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#474 Jacques209
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#475 Marcus209
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#476 Norman209