"Form of Jacob"
The name Jakeb is commonly a male name from the "Hebrew" origin.
Jakeb is a respelling of Jacob, the English form of the Hebrew name Yaakov, which reached English through Greek Iakobos and Latin Iacobus. The Jakeb spelling is recent: it first appears in US birth records in 1982, which fits a modern phonetic respelling rather than a historical variant.
Jacob means "Held by the heel. Replacer. A form of James.".
The pronunciation of Jakeb is JAY-kub.
