Jacobs

At the 2020 census, 114,905 Americans bore the surname Jacobs — 266th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 2,601.

By the numbers

People: 114,905
Rank: 266th
How common: 1 in 2,601
Per 100,000: 38.4

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 71.5%
Black, not Hispanic 16.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Jacobs

Danny Jacobs (born 1968)American actor
Marcell Jacobs (born 1994)Italian athlete
Marc Jacobs (born 1963)American fashion designer
Aletta Jacobs (1854–1929)Dutch physician and feminist, editor
Jane Jacobs (1916–2006)American–Canadian journalist, author, and activist
Gillian Jacobs (born 1982)American film, theater and television actress
Harriet Jacobs (1815–1897)American slave, writer, and abolitionist
Helen Jacobs (1908–1997)American tennis player

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

Surnames like Jacobs

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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.