The surname Jacobs
A patronymic surname, carried by 118,614 people in the United States.
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒeɪkəbz/ 2 syllables Soundex J212
Origin
An English surname originating as a patronymic derived from Jacob.
Jacobs is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 118,614 people named Jacobs in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 2,603 Americans. That is up 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 115,540.
Who is named Jacobs
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
74% of people named Jacobs identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
- White (not Hispanic) 74%
- Black (not Hispanic) 17%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 3.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
- Two or more races 2.2%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Famous Jacobss
40 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first
- Danny JacobsAmerican actor, born 1968
- Marc JacobsAmerican fashion designer (born 1963)
- Jane JacobsAmerican–Canadian journalist, author, and activist (1916–2006)
- Gillian JacobsAmerican film, theater and television actress, born 1982
- Harriet JacobsAmerican slave, writer, and abolitionist (1815-1897)
- Helen JacobsAmerican tennis player (1908–1997)
- Joseph JacobsAustralian folklorist, historian and writer (1854–1916)
- René JacobsBelgian (Flemish) countertenor and conductor (born 1946)
- Chosen JacobsAmerican actor, singer, born 2001
- Irwin M. JacobsAmerican electrical engineer and philanthropist, born 1933
- Karl JacobsAmerican Twitch streamer and YouTuber (born 1998)
- Regina JacobsAmerican athletics competitor (born 1963)
Notable Jacobss come mostly from the United States (33), Belgium (5) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1).
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Jacobs has the Soundex code J212, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code J212.
Questions
- How common is the surname Jacobs?
- 118,614 people in the United States had the surname Jacobs in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 2,603 Americans. It ranked 257th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Jacobs?
- In the 2010 Census, 74% of people named Jacobs identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Who is the most famous person named Jacobs?
- Danny Jacobs, American actor, followed by Marc Jacobs.
- Where is the surname Jacobs most common?
- Wikidata records people named Jacobs in the United States, Belgium and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and 1 other country.
- How do you pronounce Jacobs?
- Jacobs is /ˈd͡ʒeɪkəbz/, 2 syllables.
- What type of surname is Jacobs?
- Jacobs is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
- Is the surname Jacobs getting more or less common?
- More common. 115,540 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 118,614 in 2010, up 2.7%.