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The JACOBSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 44,874 695 0.017 166
United States (1880 census) 5,987 1029 0.012 120
Change since 1880 +38887 +334 +0.005 +46
Other Countries
Australia 1,364 1208 0.008 83
United Kingdom 752 6565 0.002 16
Top States for JACOBSON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 5,308 34 0.108 1,079
California 4,665 641 0.014 138
Wisconsin 3,537 75 0.066 659
Washington 2,569 205 0.044 436
Florida 2,368 795 0.015 148
Top States for JACOBSON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 988 20 0.154 1,538
Minnesota 5,308 34 0.108 1,079
South Dakota 529 67 0.070 701
Wisconsin 3,537 75 0.066 659
Montana 490 130 0.054 543

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of JACOBSON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 660 1.47
Mixed Race 489 1.09
Asian/Pacific 238 0.53
Native American/Alaskan 215 0.48
Black/African American 171 0.38
White (Caucasian) 43,101 96.05

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

Meaning of JACOBSON in historical publications

JACOBSON. See Jacob.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to JACOBSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JACOBSON.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for JACOBSON

The following words are slight variants of JACOBSON that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.