Akiba

Akiba is a male first name.

Origin and Meaning

Akiba is Aramaic עֲקִיבָא and means " heel". From the same Semitic root Jacob also is derived.

Bearers of the name

• Akiba ben Joseph (Hebrew עקיבא בן יוסף; around 50/55-135 ), commonly called Rabbi Akiva, one of the most important fathers of rabbinic Judaism and is counted among the Tannaim of the second generation
• Akiba Eger ( Akiba ben Moses Eger, the Younger Akiba, Akiba ben Moses gins from Eisenstadt; 1761-1837 ), rabbi in Mark- Friedland and poses
• Akiva Eisenberg (1908-1983); first chief rabbi of the Jewish community in Vienna after the Second World War.
• Jacob Akiba Marinsky (1918-2005), American chemist and co-discoverer of the element promethium
• Akiba Rubinstein (1882-1961), Polish chess player
• Akiba Ernst Simon (1899-1988), Israeli religious philosopher, educator and historian of German origin