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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • French : Supplanter; substitute

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from the Old French personal name Jaques, a vernacular form of Latin Jacobus (see Jacob). In English this surname is traditionally pronounced as two syllables, jay-kwez. Compare Jacques.

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