Jakobsson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ja:kopson/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jakobsson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Antigua & Barbuda it is the 20th most common surname.
- SESweden1 in 556(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 6.9Kas Jacobson
- USUnited States1 in 7.4Kas Jacobson
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jakobsson itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 509 (measured from records)
- 1 in 556 (inferred from the name graph)
≈92,000 named Jacobson, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jacobson in US United States, SE Sweden, GB United Kingdom and 6 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a surname originating as a patronymic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jakobsson counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈92,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Jacobson | 14 |
| US United States | #584 | 44,808as Jacobson | 1 in 7.4K | 45K | Jacobson | 509 |
| SE Sweden | #727 | 18,344 | 1 in 556 | 18K | Jacobson | 78 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Jacobson | 31 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 1.1K | Jacobson | 155 |
| CA Canada | #619 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Jacobson | 170 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,142 | 1 in 2.6K | 2.1K | — | 18 |
| NZ New Zealand | #682 | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Jacobson | 57 |
| IS Iceland | #694 | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | 1 | Jacobson | 10 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #20 | — | — | — | Jacobson | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Carl Robert Jakobsonb. 1841SEnot in their usual nameEstonian writer, politician and teacher (1841-1882)
- Walter Jakobssonb. 1882FIFinnish figure skater (1882–1957)
- Ludowika Jakobssonb. 1884FIGerman-Finnish figure skater
- Roman Jakobsonb. 1896USnot in their usual nameRussian linguist (1896–1982)
- Max Jakobsonb. 1923FInot in their usual nameFinnish journalist and diplomat (1923–2013)
- Maggie Wheelerb. 1961USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Andreas Jakobssonb. 1972SESwedish footballer
- Maarja Jakobsonb. 1977EEnot in their usual nameEstonian actress (born 1977)
- Johan Jakobssonb. 1987SESwedish handball player
- Sofia Jakobssonb. 1990SESwedish association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 18K | #31 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 2.1K | #918 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 773 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jakobsson mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Jakobsson?
- A machine transcription gives /ja:kopson/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- In which country does Jakobsson have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 92 thousand people named Jacobson in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Jakobsson most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jakobsson is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 556 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jakobsson?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 18,344 people named Jakobsson, about 1 in 556 residents.
- How common is Jakobsson compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Jakobsson is the 20th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jakobsson?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jakobssonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jakobsson” — the 20th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.