How common is the last name Jacob?

25,360 people in the United States have the last name Jacob, about 1 in 11,786. It ranks #1,367 of 156,621 last names in the 2020 Census.

last name

JACOB

#1,367

of 156,621 last names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
25,360
About
1 in 11,786
This common or more
43.3%
Who bears it

Of the 25,360 people with the last name Jacob, 52.2% reported their origin as White, 29% as Asian or Pacific Islander and 10.1% as Black. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Either side of Jacob

#1,365 Robison · 25,371#1,366 Whitley · 25,367#1,368 Ocampo · 25,342#1,369 Christopher · 25,312

Spelled almost the same

5 last names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jacob, most common first.

#3,074 Jacobo · 11,399#3,892 Jacoby · 8,862#9,175 Jacobi · 3,415#28,606 Jakob · 886#44,477 Jacobe · 520

Also a first name

As a first name, Jacob ranks #37 of 53,615, with 805,730 people. As a baby name it peaked in 1998, with 36,091 births. See Jacob as a first name

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