Job

Hebrew

"persecuted"

Job Origin and Meaning

The name Job is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "persecuted".

If you focus on the patience of the biblical Job, rather than his trials, the name becomes more usable. He was, after all, the Old Testament hero of the Book of Job, whose faith was severely tested by God but remained faithful. The name was was used by Puritans and Christian fundamentalists and can be found in the novels of Dickens, George Eliot and Robert Louis Stevenson..

If you are considering naming your baby Job, you may want to check out this blog by one parent who made that choice.

Job Rank in US Top 1000

# 909 in the US

Job Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 2104 on Nameberry

Job Popularity

• 776 Nameberry 2023
• 71 Netherlands 2023

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Famous People Named Job

• Job Biblical figure tested by God
• Saint Job of Pochayiv Ukrainian Orthodox monk
• Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde Dutch painter
• Jobe "Job" Charnock administrator of the English East India Company; founder of Calcutta, India
• (Marius) Job Cohen Dutch labor party leader and cabinet member
• Job Harriman American socialist leader
• Job Mann U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
• Job ben Solomon (born Ayuba Suleiman Diallo) Senegalese,born author of one of the first American slave narratives
• Steve Jobs founder of Apple

Job in Pop Culture

• Job Anderson character in R. L. Stevenson's "Treasure Island"
• Job little boy in movie "Children of the Corn" (not the creepy boy, the other one)
• George Oscar "GOB" Bluth II (pronounced "Job") character on TV's "Arrested Development"