Surname statistics for Jacobs

There are approximately 25,039 people named Jacobs in the UK. That makes it the 396th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 396 are named Jacobs.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)25039396N/A396
United Kingdom (1881 census)71745890.024240
Change since 1881+17865+193+0.016+156
Other Countries
United States115540233N/A428
Australia3485429N/A213

Politics

People with the surname Jacobs are less likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Conservative.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Jacobs are:

  1. Conservative (2)
  2. Liberal Democrat (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Jacobs
Michael Jacobs
Paul Jacobs
Andrew Jacobs
Stephen Jacobs
John Jacobs
Robert Jacobs
Daniel Jacobs
Simon Jacobs
Richard Jacobs
Mark Jacobs
Anthony Jacobs
Alan Jacobs
Peter Jacobs
Philip Jacobs
Ian Jacobs
Steven Jacobs
Martin Jacobs
Jonathan Jacobs
Christopher Jacobs

Top female forenames

Susan Jacobs
Sandra Jacobs
Sarah Jacobs
Mary Jacobs
Claire Jacobs
Emma Jacobs
Michelle Jacobs
Helen Jacobs
Deborah Jacobs
Caroline Jacobs
Victoria Jacobs
Linda Jacobs
Jennifer Jacobs
Elaine Jacobs
Karen Jacobs
Jane Jacobs
Christine Jacobs
Patricia Jacobs
Gillian Jacobs
Jacqueline Jacobs

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.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there 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!

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 UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.