Jacquet
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: from the personal name Jacquet, a pet form of Jacques
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jacquet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 4.6K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 2K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 319 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈49,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the personal name Jacquet, a pet form of Jacques.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Jacquet is read(measured from records)
Jacquet is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French70%
from the personal name Jacquet, a pet form of Jacques.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
a game resembling backgammon
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ce jeu proche du trictrac vient d’une variante de l’anglais jockey . Littré cite une expression : « Il s’est levé dès le patron Jacquet, c’est-à-dire il s’est levé de très bonne heure », remplacée, on s’en doute, par « dès potron-minet ». Voir Jockey .
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
dérivé de Jacques
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- Spanish18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Jacquet in Spanish.
- English8.3%
Illinois, jazz musician
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jacquet 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Jacquet | 4 |
| FR France | #125 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 2.7K | Jacquet | 319 |
| HT Haiti | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | listed | — | 11 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Jacquet | 12 |
| BE Belgium | #171 | 2,556 | 1 in 4.6K | 2.6K | Jacquet | 88 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,228 | 1 in 20K | 2.2K | — | 1 |
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 noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the ht-potomitan-names register. 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)
- Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerreb. 1665FRFrench musician
- Gaston Jacquetb. 1883FRFrench actor
- Illinois Jacquetb. 1922USAmerican jazz tenor saxophonist (1922–2004)
- René-Jean Jacquetb. 1933FRFrench footballer (1933–1993)
- Aimé Jacquetb. 1941FRFrench football manager
- Luc Jacquetb. 1967FRFrench film director
- Sonya Smithb. 1972USnot in their usual nameVenezuelan actress
- Kyrian Jacquetb. 2001FRFrench tennis player (born 2001)
- Chloé Jacquetb. 2002FRFrench rugby union player
- Jérémy Jacquetb. 2005FRFrench footballer
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 31 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 3.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 3.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 3.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 2.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 2.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 2.7K | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2.6K | #357 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 2.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 2.4K | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 2.3K | #398 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.2K | — |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Jacquet mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Jacquet, a pet form of Jacques. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Jacquet have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 49 thousand people named Jacquet in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jacquet.
- How common is the name Jacquet?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 2,556 people named Jacquet in 2008, about 1 in 4.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Jacquet compared with other names?
- In France, Jacquet is the 125th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jacquetThe 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, “Jacquet” — the 125th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.