Jacqués
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jacqués is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country, where it is the 39th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Latin Iacobus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Yaʿăqōḇ).
- FRFrance≈1 in 380(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 460
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 570
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 426 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 377 (inferred from the name graph)
≈190,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jacques in FR France, US United States, BE Belgium and 3 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)- LatinIacobus(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekἸάκωβοςIákōbos(measured from records)
- Biblical HebrewיַעֲקֹבYaʿăqōḇ(measured from records)
From Latin Iacobus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Yaʿăqōḇ).
Cited for this meaning 9
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jacqués 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #39 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 572 | — | Jacques | 32 |
| FR France | #47 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 377 | 483K | Jacques | 426 |
| ZA South Africa | #641 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Jacques | 110 |
| CM Cameroon | #34 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 672 | — | Jacques | 41 |
| BE Belgium | #31 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 462 | 4.3K | Jacques | 164 |
| US United States | — | 11,599 | 1 in 29K | 14K | Jacques | 398 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 933 | 85 | — | 30 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jacqués mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Iacobus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Yaʿăqōḇ). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 7 other sources.
- Is Jacqués a male or female name?
- Jacqués is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Jacqués?
- Mondonomo estimates about 191 thousand people named Jacqués in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jacques. After it come France, South Africa, Cameroon and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Jacqués?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,599 people named Jacqués in 2020, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Jacqués compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Jacqués is the 39th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jacqu%C3%A9sThe 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, “Jacqués” — the 39th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.