The JACOB surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	21,354	1541	0.008	79
United States (1880 census)	4,188	1474	0.008	84
Change since 1880	+17166	-67	0	-5
Other Countries
Australia	987	1675	0.006	60
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for JACOB by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,852	1820	0.005	55
New York	1,821	1022	0.010	96
Texas	1,750	1469	0.008	84
Florida	1,466	1459	0.009	92
Illinois	1,197	1059	0.010	96
Top States for JACOB by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	1,134	590	0.025	254
Delaware	103	1394	0.013	131
North Dakota	77	1180	0.012	120
New Jersey	998	905	0.012	119
Wisconsin	624	1001	0.012	116

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called JACOB live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called JACOB represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called JACOB in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a JACOB by picking someone at random in Louisiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of JACOB

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the JACOB surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the JACOB surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of JACOB in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	664	3.11
Mixed Race	545	2.55
Native American/Alaskan	220	1.03
White (Caucasian)	14,431	67.58
Asian/Pacific	3,346	15.67
Black/African American	2,146	10.05

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the JACOB surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to JACOB

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JACOB.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.