Akiva (given name)

Akiva or Akiba is a Jewish-ethnic name, arising in Aramaic from Template:Lang-he-n, 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.

Those bearing it include:

• Rabbi Akiva (c. 50 – c. 135 CE), Judean religious leader
• Akiva Eger (1761–1837), central European religious leader
• Akiva Librecht (1876–1958), Israeli politician
• Akiba Rubinstein (1880-1961), Polish chess grandmaster
• Akiva Govrin (1902–1980), Israeli politician
• Akiva Vroman (1912–1989), Israeli geologist
• Akiva Yaglom (1921–2007), Soviet & Russian scientist
• Akiva Ehrenfeld (1923–2012), president of Kiryat Mattersdorf, Jerusalem
• Akiva Orr (born 1931), Israeli writer & political
• Akiva Nof (born 1936), Israeli politician & songwriter
• 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

See also

• Akiba (given name)