How common is the surname Jacobi?

3,563 people in the United States had the surname Jacobi in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 86,653 Americans. It ranked 9,161st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Jacobi?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Jacobi identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Jacobi?

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi, American physician, writer and suffragist (1842-1906), followed by Lou Jacobi.

Where is the surname Jacobi most common?

Wikidata records people named Jacobi in the United States, Canada and Brazil.

Is the surname Jacobi getting more or less common?

More common. 3,443 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,563 in 2010, up 3.5%.

The surname Jacobi

A German patronymic surname, carried by 3,563 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex J210

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Jacobi is more common than 94.4% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Jacopi, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname from a Latinized patronymic from the personal name Jacob.

Jacobi is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,563 people named Jacobi in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 86,653 Americans. That is up 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,443.

#9,161

rank among US surnames

3,563

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+3.5%

change since 2000 (was #8,776)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,155	Tolle	3,564	86,629
#9,161	Tincher	3,563	86,653
#9,164	Boos	3,562	86,678
#9,165	Caston	3,561	86,702

Who is named Jacobi

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

94% of people named Jacobi identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.0%
Two or more races 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Jacobis

6 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi
American physician, writer and suffragist (1842-1906)
Lou Jacobi
Actor (1913-2009)
Joe Jacobi
American canoe racer, born 1969
Júlio César Jacobi
Brazilian footballer, born 1986
Carl Richard Jacobi
American writer (1908-1997)
Frederick Jacobi
American composer (1891–1952)

Notable Jacobis come mostly from the United States (4), Canada (1) and Brazil (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Jacobe

Surnames that sound like Jacobi

Jacobi has the Soundex code J210, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code J210.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Jacobi come from?: Borrowed from German Jacopi, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname from a Latinized patronymic from the personal name Jacob.
How common is the surname Jacobi?: 3,563 people in the United States had the surname Jacobi in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 86,653 Americans. It ranked 9,161st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Jacobi?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Jacobi identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Jacobi?: Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi, American physician, writer and suffragist (1842-1906), followed by Lou Jacobi.
Where is the surname Jacobi most common?: Wikidata records people named Jacobi in the United States, Canada and Brazil.
What type of surname is Jacobi?: Jacobi is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
Is the surname Jacobi getting more or less common?: More common. 3,443 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,563 in 2010, up 3.5%.
What are other spellings of Jacobi?: Jacobe.