Jaques
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Old French Ja(c)ques, from the personal name Jacques
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdʒæks/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jaques is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 103K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 16K
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Old French Ja(c)ques, from the personal name Jacques.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jaques 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #757 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 4.6K | Jaques | 109 |
| US United States | — | 3,224 | 1 in 103K | 3.2K | Jaques | 137 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Jaques | 53 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Jaques | 26 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 525 | 1 in 16K | 525 | Jaques | 16 |
| BE Belgium | — | 327 | 1 in 36K | 327 | Jaques | 14 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Jaques | 13 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 98 | 1 in 35K | 98 | Jaques | 11 |
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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Jaques is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from the Old French personal name Jaques, a vernacular form of Latin Jacobus (see Jacob). In English this surname is traditionally pronounced as two syllables, jay-kwez. Compare Jacques.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, character in As You Like It
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Shakespeare
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In nrm, a male given name, equivalent to English James or Jacob or French Jacques
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)
- Heinrich Jaquesb. 1831ATAustrian politician (1831-1894)
- Florence Page Jaquesb. 1890USAmerican author (1890-1972)
- Elliott Jaquesb. 1917CACanadian psychoanalyst and organizational psychologist (1917-2003)
- Brigitte Jaques-Wajemanb. 1946FRFrench actress
- Bob Jaquesb. 1956CACanadian animator
- Phil Jaquesb. 1979AUAustralian cricketer
- Thibault Jaquesb. 1988FRFrench association football player
- Sophie Jaquesb. 2000CACanadian ice hockey player
- Allira Jaquesactress
- George JaquesBritish actor
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 50 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 14K | #1,039 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #9,998 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.1K | #9,930 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.1K | #9,723 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 525 | #2,457 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 327 | #5,008 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 326 | #5,136 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 98 | — |
| 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 given-name 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 Jaques mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old French Ja(c)ques, from the personal name Jacques. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Jaques?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒæks/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Jaques?
- In the etymology graph, Yacouba and Yakob are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Jaques have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Jaques in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jaques.
- Where is Jaques most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jaques is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jaques?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,224 people named Jaques in 2010, about 1 in 103 thousand residents.
- How common is Jaques compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Jaques is the 757th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jaques?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jaquesThe 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, “Jaques” — the 757th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.