Jacobi

Jacobi is the 9,175th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,415 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 87,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,415
Rank: 9,175th
How common: 1 in 87,500
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin German

a Jewish Ashkenazi surname from a Latinized patronymic from the personal name Jacob.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.09%

Notable people called Jacobi

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804–1851)German mathematician
Derek Jacobi (born 1938)English actor
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1819)German philosopher
Moritz von Jacobi (1801–1874)German engineer and physicist
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906)American physician, writer and suffragist
Lotte Jacobi (1896–1990)German-American photographer
Hermann Jacobi (1850–1937)German indologist
Abraham Jacobi (1830–1919)German-American pediatrician

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

Surnames like Jacobi

Also a first name

Jacobi has been given to 4,501 American babies as a first name since 1973, peaking in 2008. 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.