Jakobus
given name · Latin script
Meaning: James (one of several New Testament personalities, especially the apostle James the Greater)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒkoʊbəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jakobus is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in South Africa.
- ZASouth Africa
- NLNetherlands
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
James (one of several New Testament personalities, especially the apostle James the Greater)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Jakobus Leydekkerb. 1656NL1656-1729
- Jacob Perkoisb. 1756NLnot in their usual nameDutch artist, 1756-1804 (1756–1804)
- Jakobus Lindenb. 1886DEGerman sculptor (1886–1950)
- Jakobus Onnenb. 1906DEGerman military officer and possible war criminal (1906–1943)
- Jakobus Wössnerb. 1921DEGerman sociologist and theologian (1921–1975)
- Ko Kiersb. 1930NLnot in their usual nameDutch politician (1930-2006)
- Jakobus Kaffankeb. 1945DEGerman friar
- Koos Prinsloob. 1957ZAnot in their usual nameSouth African writer
- Jakobus Siebelsb. 1969DEGerman musician and painter
- Roelof Dednamb. 1985ZAnot in their usual namebadminton 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)
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)
Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 27 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 27 | #74,697 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 26 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 26 | #76,218 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 24 | #45,846 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Jakobus mean, and where does it come from?
- James (one of several New Testament personalities, especially the apostle James the Greater) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Jakobus?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒkoʊbəs/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Jakobus a male or female name?
- Jakobus 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.
- What are other forms of the name Jakobus?
- In the etymology graph, Jakob is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Jakobus have the most bearers?
- Jakobus is most frequently recorded in South Africa.
What do you want to know about Jakobus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jakobusThe 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, “Jakobus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.