# Jacco

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**Jacco** is a [Dutch](/source/Dutch_language) male [given name](/source/Given_name). It is a form of [Jacob](/source/Jacob_(name)) or [James](/source/James_(given_name)), only popular since the mid-1960. The spelling **Jakko** is uncommon.[1] People with the name include:

## Jacco

- [Jacco Arends](/source/Jacco_Arends) (born 1991), Dutch badminton player
- [Jacco Eltingh](/source/Jacco_Eltingh) (born 1970), Dutch tennis player
- [Jacco Gardner](/source/Jacco_Gardner) (born 1988), Dutch multi-instrumentalist
- [Jacco Verhaeren](/source/Jacco_Verhaeren) (born 1969), Dutch swimming coach
- [Jacco (singer)](/source/Jacco_(singer)), real name Jack Mattar, Swedish rapper of the band [Labyrint](/source/Labyrint_(band))

Animals:

- [Jacco Macacco](/source/Jacco_Macacco), fighting ape or monkey exhibited in monkey-baiting matches in London in the early 1820s

## Jakko

- [*Jakko* (film)](/source/Jakko_(film)), a 1941 German drama film directed by Fritz Peter Buch
- [Jakko Jakszyk](/source/Jakko_Jakszyk) (born 1958), stage name of Michael Lee Curran, English musician
- [Jakko Jan Leeuwangh](/source/Jakko_Jan_Leeuwangh) (born 1972), Dutch speed skater

## See also

- [Jacko (disambiguation)](/source/Jacko_(disambiguation))
- [Jaco (disambiguation)](/source/Jaco_(disambiguation))
- [Jaakko Mäntyjärvi](/source/Jaakko_M%C3%A4ntyj%C3%A4rvi) (born 1963), Finnish composer

## References

1. [Jacco](https://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/naam/is/jacco) and [Jakko](https://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/naam/is/jakko) at the [Meertens Institute](/source/Meertens_Institute) database of given names in the Netherlands.

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