The JACOBSEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	18,831	1743	0.007	70
United States (1880 census)	699	7358	0.001	14
Change since 1880	+18132	+5615	+0.006	+56
Other Countries
Australia	921	1780	0.006	56
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for JACOBSEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	2,275	1408	0.007	67
Washington	1,350	472	0.023	229
Minnesota	1,159	362	0.024	236
Illinois	975	1264	0.008	79
Iowa	965	255	0.033	330
Top States for JACOBSEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Nebraska	739	155	0.043	432
Utah	788	308	0.035	353
Iowa	965	255	0.033	330
Idaho	360	412	0.028	278
Montana	240	349	0.027	266

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

Classification and Origin of JACOBSEN

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Denmark

Language of origin: Danish

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the JACOBSEN 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 JACOBSEN 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 JACOBSEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	264	1.4
Mixed Race	207	1.1
Asian/Pacific	92	0.49
Native American/Alaskan	81	0.43
Black/African American	30	0.16
White (Caucasian)	18,155	96.41

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

Similar names to JACOBSEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JACOBSEN.

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.