Jacobson

Jacobson is the 787th most common surname in the United States, shared by 42,784 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 6,986.

By the numbers

People: 42,784
Rank: 787th
How common: 1 in 6,986
Per 100,000: 14.3

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

. From Middle English Jacobson. Medieval English patronymic surname "son of Jacob".

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Jacobson described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Jacobson

Peter Jacobson (born 1965)American film and television actor, born 1965
Howard Jacobson (born 1942)British author and journalist
Ivar Jacobson (born 1939)Swedish computer scientist
Abbi Jacobson (born 1984)American comedian and actress
Nathan Jacobson (1910–1999)American mathematician
Nina Jacobson (born 1965)American studio executive
Sada Jacobson (born 1983)American fencer
Hans Jacobson (1947–1984)Olympic medalist in fencing

People named Jacobson with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Jacobson

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.