Jacks
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒæks/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jacks is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: patronymic from Jack.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 50K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 56K
- PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 9.7K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 352 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)
5,946 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Papua New Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jaecks in CD Congo - Kinshasa, PK Pakistan.
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)
patronymic from Jack.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jacks 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 5,946 | 1 in 56K | 6.1K | Jacks | 352 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Jaecks | 2 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Jaecks | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 1.3K | Jacks | 131 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 268K | — | Jacks | 23 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | 1 | — | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Jacks | 7 |
5,946 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jacks is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, jacks; knucklebones; jackstones
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- L. P. Jacksb. 1860GBBritish educator, philosopher, and Unitarian minister (1860-1955)
- Harry Jacksb. 1908NZSoldier, plant pathologist, lecturer, forester (1908–1994)
- Robert L. Jacksb. 1927American film producer
- Terry Jacksb. 1944CACanadian singer-songwriter and environmentalist
- Brian Jacksb. 1946GBBritish judoka
- George Jacksb. 1946GBEnglish footballer (born 1946)
- James Jacksb. 1947USAmerican film producer (1947–2014)
- Susan Jacksb. 1948CACanadian singer (1948–2022)
- Ron Jacksb. 1948CACanadian swimmer, Olympic athlete, Commonwealth Games gold medallist
- Robert Jacksb. 1959USAmerican actor (1959-2001)
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 33 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.1K | #5,268 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.9K | #5,813 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.9K | #5,710 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.3K | #5,361 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Jacks mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from Jack. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Jacks?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒæks/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jacks have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.9 thousand people named Jacks, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jacks.
- How common is the name Jacks?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,946 people named Jacks in 2010, about 1 in 56 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jacks?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jacksThe 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, “Jacks”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.