Jacob

At the 2020 census, 25,360 Americans bore the surname Jacob — 1,367th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 11,800.

By the numbers

People: 25,360
Rank: 1,367th
How common: 1 in 11,800
Per 100,000: 8.5

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Jacob described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 52.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 29.0%
Black, not Hispanic 10.1%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Jacob

François Jacob (1920–2013)French biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965
Max Jacob (1876–1944)French poet, painter, writer and critic
Irène Jacob (born 1966)French-born Swiss actress
Anund Jacob (1008–1050)King of Sweden from 1022 until 1050
Marius Jacob (1879–1954)French anarchist
Catherine Jacob (born 1956)French actress
Matthias Jacob (born 1960)East German biathlete
Gordon Jacob (1895–1984)English composer

People named Jacob with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Jacob

Also a first name

Jacob has been given to 990,532 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1998. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.