Akiva or Akiba is a Jewish-ethnic name, arising in

Aramaic Aramaic (; ) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, Sinai, southeastern Anatolia, and Eastern Arabia, where it has been continually written a ...

from , and thus cognate to

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Jacob Jacob, later known as Israel, is a Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions. He first appears in the Torah, where he is described in the Book of Genesis as a son of Isaac and Rebecca. Accordingly, alongside his older fraternal twin brother E ...

. 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

, the other relates to the Roman period

Rabbi Akiva Akiva ben Joseph (Mishnaic Hebrew: ; – 28 September 135 CE), also known as Rabbi Akiva (), was a leading Jewish scholar and sage, a '' tanna'' of the latter part of the first century and the beginning of the second. Rabbi Akiva was a leadin ...

Akiva

(c. 50 – c. 135 AD), Judean religious leader * Akiva Ehrenfeld (1923–2012), president of

Kiryat Mattersdorf Kiryat Mattersdorf () is a Haredi neighborhood in Jerusalem. It is located on the northern edge of the mountain plateau on which central Jerusalem lies. It is named after Mattersburg (formerly ''Mattersdorf''), a town in Austria with a long Jewis ...

Jerusalem Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and ...

Akiva Eiger Akiva Eiger (, also spelled Eger; , ), or Akiva Güns (8 November 1761 – 12 October 1837) was a Talmudic scholar, halakhic decisor and leader of European Jewry during the early 19th century. Eiger is considered one of the greatest Talmudic ...

(1761–1837), Polish Talmudic scholar and rabbi *

Akiva Eldar Akiva Eldar (; born 27 November 1945) is an Israeli political analyst, author and journalist. Eldar wrote for the newspaper Haaretz and was chief political columnist, editorial writer and US Bureau Chief for the paper,

(born 1945), Israeli journalist and author *

Akiva Frankfurt Akiva ben Jacob Frankfurt (; died 1597), also known as Akiva ben Jacob Günzburg (), was a German poet and rabbi. He was the son of Jacob Flesch of Prague, and the son-in-law of Rabbi Simeon Günzburg of Frankfurt, with whose congregation he was ...

(died 1597), German poet and rabbi *

Akiva Goldsman Akiva Goldsman (born July 7, 1962) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. Goldsman's filmography as a screenwriter includes ''The Client (1994 film), The Client''; ''Batman Forever'' and its sequel ''Batman & Robin (film), Batman ...

(born 1962), American writer * Akiva Govrin (1902–1980), Israeli politician * Akiva Grunblatt (

fl. ''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indic ...

2000s), American religious leader * Akiva ha-Kohen (died 1496), Hungarian scholar and rabbi * Akiva Baer ben Joseph (died 1724), Viennese Talmudist and kabbalistic writer *

Akiva Librecht Akiva Librecht (; 1876 – March 3, 1958) was a founding member of Petah Tikva, Israel, and a member of its first council, which he headed in 1912–13. He was also a member of the Kfar Saba council. Librecht was born in 1876 in Jerusalem, then ...

(1876–1958), Israeli politician *

Akiva Nof Akiva Nof (; born 2 December 1936) is an Israeli poet and songwriter, composer, politician, lawyer and a journalist, who served three terms as a member of the Knesset between 1974 and 1984. Biography Nof was born Akiva Naparstek' in Tel Aviv du ...

(born 1936), Israeli politician & songwriter *

Akiva Orr Akiva "Aki" Orr (; born Karl Sebastian Sonnenberg; June 19, 1931 – February 7, 2013) was an Israeli writer and political activist. He was an outspoken critic of Zionism and supported a one-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. A ...

(born 1931), Israeli writer & political activist *

Akiva Schaffer Akiva Daniel Shebar Schaffer (; born December 1, 1977) is an American writer, producer, director, comedian, actor, and musician. He is a member of the comedy music group The Lonely Island, along with childhood friends Andy Samberg and Jorma Tacc ...

(born 1977), American writer & comedian * Akiva Yosef Schlesinger (1838–1922), Hungarian Orthodox Jewish rabbi * Akiva Tatz (fl. c. 2000), a South African religious leader & writer * Akiva Tor, Israeli diplomat and politician *

Akiva (singer) Akiva Turgeman, better known as Akiva (; born 23 July 1991 in Dimona, Israel), is an Israeli musician. He is the son of Rabbi David Turgeman, who leads the Gevoha Yeshiva, and belongs to a founding family of Dimona. Early life and education Aki ...

(born 1991), Israeli singer * Akiva Aryeh Weiss (1868–1947), Zionist activist, architect, and city planner * Akiva Vroman (1912–1989), Israeli geologist *

Akiva Weingarten Rabbi Akiva Weingarten (born December 23, 1984, in Monsey, New York) is a German-American liberal rabbi. He serves as the chief Rabbi of the state of Saxony, Germany, the rabbi of the city of Dresden, Germany, from 2019, and the Liberal Jewish co ...

(born 1984), German-American liberal rabbi *

Akiva Yaglom Akiva Moiseevich Yaglom (; 6 March 1921 – 13 December 2007) was a Soviet and Russian physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist. He was known for his contributions to the statistical theory of turbulence and theory of random proc ...

(1921–2007), Soviet & Russian scientist

Akiba

* Akiba Eisenberg (1908–1983), Hungarian rabbi * Akiba Lehren (1795–1876), Dutch banker * Akiba ben Judah Loeb (18th century), German rabbi * Akiba McKinney (born 1979), American long jumper *

Akiba Rubinstein Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Rubinstein was granted the title International Grandma ...

(1882–1961), Polish-Jewish chess Grandmaster

Fictional characters

* Akiva Shtisel, main character in the television series ''

Shtisel ''Shtisel'' () is an Israeli television drama series about a fictional Ashkenazi orthodox family living in Geula, Jerusalem. Created and written by Ori Elon and Yehonatan Indursky, the series premiered on 29 June 2013 on yes Oh. It commenced ...

'' * Akiva, a

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and main character on the American fantasy novel Daughter of Smoke and Bone * Akiva, a fictional Jewish partisan in the novel Wrath Becomes Her {{given name, Akiva Jewish masculine given names Masculine given names Aramaic-language names