Jakubek
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jakubek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a pet form of the personal name Jakub, vernacular form of Latin Jacobus (see Jacob).
- PLPoland1 in 14K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 37K
- CZCzechia1 in 70K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
2,693 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a pet form of the personal name Jakub, vernacular form of Latin Jacobus (see Jacob).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jakubek 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 2,693 | 1 in 14K | 1.4K | Jakubek | 65 |
| US United States | 503 | 1 in 661K | 532 | Jakubek | 53 |
| CZ Czechia | 152 | 1 in 70K | 152 | Jakubek | 27 |
| SK Slovakia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Jakubek | 38 |
| IT Italy | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 715K | — | Jakubek | 2 |
| HR Croatia | 59 | 1 in 72K | 59 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 24 | 1 in 425K | 24 | Jakubek | 4 |
2,693 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- Rudolf Alois Jakubekb. 1902DEGerman painter
- Marek Jakubekb. 1951PLPolish jurist
- Zbigniew Jakubekb. 1962PLPolish musician
- Monika Jakubek-Raczkowskab. 1976PLPolish art historian
- Dominik Jakubekb. 1979USAmerican soccer player
- Milan Jakubekresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-7323-3903
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 8 countries.
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Jakubek mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the personal name Jakub, vernacular form of Latin Jacobus (see Jacob). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Jakubek have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Jakubek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jakubek.
- Where is Jakubek most common?
- Jakubek is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 14 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jakubek?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,693 people named Jakubek in 2026, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
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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, “Jakubek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.