Jakubec
surname · Latin script
Meaning: derivative of the personal name Jakub
/jəkubɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jakubec is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- SKSlovakia1 in 4.9K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 6.9K
- HRCroatia1 in 83K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
1,546 people
Highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
derivative of the personal name Jakub.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jakubec 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #905 | 1,546 | 1 in 6.9K | 1.5K | Jakubec | 58 |
| SK Slovakia | #362 | 1,106 | 1 in 4.9K | 1.1K | Jakubec | 42 |
| US United States | — | 217 | 1 in 1.5M | 239 | Jakubec | 34 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 335K | — | Jakubec | 6 |
| FR France | — | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 947K | 7 | Jakubec | 1 |
| HR Croatia | — | 51 | 1 in 83K | 51 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 17 | 1 in 494K | 17 | — | 1 |
1,546 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Josef Jakubecb. 1858CZCzech poet (1858-1889)
- Jan Jakubecb. 1862CZCzech literature historian, literature reviewer and university educator (1862–1936)
- Alois Jakubecb. 1869CZCzech civil servant and biographer (1869-1950)
- František Jakubecb. 1883CZCzechoslovak senator of Czechoslovak National Parliament, Czechoslovak politician and mayor (1883-1969)
- Doris Jakubecb. 1939CHSwiss professor (born 1939)
- František Jakubecb. 1956CZCzech footballer (1956-2016)
- Ivan Jakubecb. 1960CZCzech historian and university educator
- Branislav Jakubecb. 1967SKSlovak wheelchair curler
- Aleš Jakubecb. 1976CZCzech politician
- Ondřej Jakubecb. 1976CZCzech art historian
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 20 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1.5K | #816 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 1.5K | #806 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1.5K | #815 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 1.1K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 239 | #84,529 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 229 | #77,742 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 217 | #86,005 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 51 | #13,110 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 41 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 17 | #41,155 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 15 | — |
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 Jakubec mean, and where does it come from?
- derivative of the personal name Jakub. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Jakubec?
- A machine transcription gives /jəkubɛk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jakubec have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Jakubec, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jakubec.
- Where is Jakubec most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jakubec is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 4.9 thousand people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jakubec?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 1,546 people named Jakubec, about 1 in 6.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Jakubec compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Jakubec is the 905th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jakubecThe 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, “Jakubec” — the 905th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.