How common is the surname Jaco?

2,237 people in the United States had the surname Jaco in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 138,018 Americans. It ranked 13,551st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Jaco?

In the 2010 Census, 70% of people named Jaco identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Jaco getting more or less common?

More common. 1,969 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,237 in 2010, up 14%.

The surname Jaco

A surname, carried by 2,237 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex J200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Jaco is more common than 91.6% of them.

Origin

Various etymologies: * Portuguese Jacó * Italian Jàco or Italian Jacò * Czech or Slovak Jačo

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,237 people named Jaco in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 138,018 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,969.

#13,551

rank among US surnames

2,237

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+13.6%

change since 2000 (was #14,044)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,544	Pero	2,239	137,894
#13,545	Eugenio	2,238	137,956
#13,551	Threlkeld	2,237	138,018

Who is named Jaco

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

70% of people named Jaco identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 3.7% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 70%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 23%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.7%
Two or more races 2.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Jaco

Jaco has the Soundex code J200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code J200.

Questions

Where does the surname Jaco come from?: Various etymologies: * Portuguese Jacó * Italian Jàco or Italian Jacò * Czech or Slovak Jačo
How common is the surname Jaco?: 2,237 people in the United States had the surname Jaco in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 138,018 Americans. It ranked 13,551st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Jaco?: In the 2010 Census, 70% of people named Jaco identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Jaco getting more or less common?: More common. 1,969 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,237 in 2010, up 14%.