Jakub or Jacob?

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Which one and why/why not?

In the UK? Jacob is by far the more usual spelling. Jakub will be correcting people his whole life.

Jakub, but only because I'm foreign.

Depends on your heritage surely. But Jacob is so much easier.

Jacob,

Poor Jakub would be spelling his name forever. And it has a clunky look about it. "Jacob" looks right to me.

The baby's heritage will be English and Polish, hence the decision between the English and Polish versions of the name. Jakub is surely an easy Polish name for people to deal with compared to, say, Przemyslaw!

but the names Jacob/Jakub are said quite differently....
I like the Polish shortening for it, Kuba.

In the UK? Jacob is by far the more usual spelling. Jakub will be correcting people his whole life.

This ^^

How would you pronounce Jakub? Would it bother you if it was mispronounced?

I think either is fine - you might have to correct people occasionally but if it's important to you that he has this connection with his herritage then go for it.

Heritage

Are they said the same? If so I don't think it matters. How often do you say you nsme for people to spell now. It's mainly online forms. Teachers see the name written before they meet the child.

Jakub ?? No way

Jakub = 'Yakoob'

Like what @FourFriedChickensDryWhiteToast said. Jacob is pronounced with a hard J and Jakub has a Y sound. The Jakub I know is pronounced Yakoob.
So it depends which pronunciation you prefer.

Jacob. For the reasons it will be constantly misspelt.

I do actually know a Jacob . Mum is Polish, dad British.

OP I prefer Jakub.

Sorry to derail slightly but does anyone know the Latvian pronunciation of Jekabs?

I'm from the UK and I also prefer Jakub. I work with a Jakub. Everyone calls him Kuba.

I think it's a nice nod to his Polish heritage.

I like both but would pronounce Jacob jay-cb and Jakub ya-cb. So I would choose based on how you say it.

Jakub. Honour the polish, be a bit different, and it's lovely.

Jacob

Sorry to derail slightly but does anyone know the Latvian pronunciation of Jekabs?

Yakubs

I like both.

Jacob, mainly because the other one will sentence your child to a lifetime of correcting people and having to spell out their name for people/employers/banks etc

I teach a Jakub (ya-cb) and I don't think anyone has struggled too much with pronunciation. They may need correcting a couple of times but it isn't a difficult name to remember. I think it's really nice and honours the Polish heritage.
Saying that, Jacob is lovely too, so you can't really go wrong, OP!

Jacob