Jakobsen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɕækɔbsn̩/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jakobsen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common surname.
- DKDenmark1 in 217(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 241as Jacobsen
- SESweden1 in 8.6Kas Jacobsen
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jakobsen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- 1 in 100 (inferred from the name graph)
27,063 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Greenland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
a surname originating as a patronymic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jakobsen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #23 | 27,063 | 1 in 217 | 27K | Jakobsen | 180 |
| NO Norway | #25 | 22,708as Jacobsen | 1 in 241 | 23K | Jakobsen | 106 |
| US United States | — | 18,820as Jacobsen | 1 in 18K | 19K | Jakobsen | 142 |
| CN China | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Jakobsen | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | 3,322as Jacobsen | 1 in 64K | 3.3K | Jakobsen | 24 |
| SE Sweden | #876 | 1,190as Jacobsen | 1 in 8.6K | 1.2K | Jakobsen | 39 |
| GL Greenland | #18 | 576 | 1 in 100 | 576 | Jakobsen | 12 |
| FO Faroe Islands | #88 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Jakobsen | 9 |
27,063 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1). 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)
- Svend Jakobsenb. 1935DKDanish politician (1935–2022)
- Johan J. Jakobsenb. 1937NONorwegian politician (1937-2018)
- Mimi Jakobsenb. 1948DKDanish politician
- Jonny Jakobsenb. 1963SEDanish-Swedish musician
- Jahn Ivar Jakobsenb. 1965NONorwegian association football player
- Michael Jakobsenb. 1986DKDanish footballer
- Kristoffer Jakobsenb. 1994SESwedisha alpine skier
- Fabio Jakobsenb. 1996NLDutch cyclist
- Emil Jakobsenb. 1998DKDanish handball player
- Emil Riis Jakobsenb. 1998DKDanish association football player
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 19 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Jakobsen mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Jakobsen?
- A machine transcription gives /ɕækɔbsn̩/ (IPA) for Danish.
- In which country does Jakobsen have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 27 thousand people named Jakobsen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jakobsen.
- Where is Jakobsen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jakobsen is densest in Greenland — about 1 in 100 people — even though Denmark holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jakobsen?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 27,063 people named Jakobsen, about 1 in 217 residents.
- How common is Jakobsen compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Jakobsen is the 23rd most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jakobsenThe 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, “Jakobsen” — the 23rd most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.