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Jacqueline, Jackie Jaclyn , often abbreviated to "Jackie", is a feminine given name . It is variant of Jacqueline , [ 2 ] a French feminine form of Jacques which in turn comes from Jacob , a Hebrew name meaning "supplanter" or possibly "may God protect".
The name was in rare, occasional use in the Southern United States in the 1800s. It first appeared among the 1,000 most used names for American newborn girls in 1898 and reached peak usage in 1950, when it was the 55th most popular name given to American girls. It was regarded by American parents as a feminine version of the name Jack. [3]
Jackie Legs, the kangaroo in the film Kangaroo Jack; Jack Rafferty, nicknamed Jackie Boy, in Frank Miller's Sin City; Jackie Peyton, the main character of the TV sitcom Nurse Jackie; Jackie Lynn Thomas, a recurring character on the animated TV series Star Butterfly; Jackie, character in the animated TV series Bobby’s World
In 2014, Jack was again the most popular name for baby boys in Ireland. [12] In 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2013, Jack was the most common name given to boys in Australia. [13] According to the United States Census of 1990, Jack is an uncommon American name, the given name for 0.315% of the male population and 0.001% of the female population.
Cover of Steinberg O.N. Jewish and Chaldean etymological dictionary to Old Testament books 1878. Hebräisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch über die Schriften des Alten Testaments mit Einschluß der geographischen Nahmen und der chaldäischen Wörter beym Daniel und Esra (Hebrew-German Hand Dictionary on the Old Testament Scriptures including Geographical Names and Chaldean Words, with Daniel and ...
Hebrew names used by Jews (along with many Hebrew names used in Christendom) often come from the Tanakh, also known as the Hebrew Bible (the Christian version of which is called the Old Testament). Many of these names are thought to have been adapted from Hebrew phrases and expressions, bestowing special meaning or the unique circumstances of ...
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This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).