Jacoba
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as female
- Spain (INE): listed as female
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: ECN Government Gazette 8791, 2025
/xakoba/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Jacoba is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 138(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 3.1K
- NANamibia≈1 in 23K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- 1 in 138 (inferred from the name graph)
125,620 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Jacoba, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jacoba 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #700 | 125,620 | 1 in 138 | 125K | Jacoba | 70 |
| ZA South Africa | #491 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Jacoba | 36 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 15 | — | 1 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Jacoba | 13 |
| ES Spain | — | 883 | 1 in 57K | 972 | Jacoba | 17 |
| NA Namibia | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 3 | — | 3 |
125,620 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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)- Jakobea of Badenb. 1558DEnot in their usual nameMargravine of Baden by birth, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg by marriage (1558-1597)
- Codien Zwaardemaker-Visscherb. 1835NLnot in their usual nameDutch feminist, translator and writer, editor (1835–1912)
- Jacoba van Heemskerckb. 1876NLDutch painter (1876-1923)
- Elena Fortúnb. 1886ESnot in their usual nameSpanish writer (1886-1952)
- Kiky Gerritsen-Heinsiusb. 1921NLnot in their usual nameDutch resistance fighter
- Coby Timpb. 1930NLnot in their usual nameDutch actress (1930–2025)
- Coosje van Bruggenb. 1942NLnot in their usual nameDutch and American sculptor and painter (1942–2009)
- Henny Vrientenb. 1948NLnot in their usual nameDutch musician (1948–2022)
- Coby van Baalenb. 1957NLnot in their usual nameequestrian
- Cobie Smuldersb. 1982CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress (born 1982)
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)44 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 125K | #11 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 40K | #50 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 972 | #1,433 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 883 | #3,102 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 867 | #1,149 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 39 | #328 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 15 | #3,491 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 5 | #42,347 |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 3 | #21 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 are other forms of the name Jacoba?
- In the etymology graph, Jacqueline, Jackie and Jaqueline are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Jacoba?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /xakoba/; in Dutch /jaːˈkoː.baː/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Jacoba a male or female name?
- Jacoba is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as female; Spain (INE): listed as female; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Jacoba have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 126 thousand people named Jacoba, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jacoba.
- Where is Jacoba most common?
- Jacoba is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 138 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jacoba?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 125,620 people named Jacoba, about 1 in 138 residents.
- How common is Jacoba compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Jacoba is the 700th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jacoba?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jacobaThe 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, “Jacoba” — the 700th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.