Jakubowski
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name for someone from Jakubow, Jakubowo, or Jakubowice, all places named with Jakub, vernacular form of Latin Jacobus (see Jacob)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jakubowski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 97th most common surname.
- PLPoland1 in 2.1K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 95K
- UAUkraine≈1 in 18Kas Якубовський
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 Jakubowski 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
17,913 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Якубовский in RU Russia, BY Belarus, CN China and Якубовський in UA Ukraine.
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)
habitational name for someone from Jakubow, Jakubowo, or Jakubowice, all places named with Jakub, vernacular form of Latin Jacobus (see Jacob).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jakubowski 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #97 | 17,913 | 1 in 2.1K | 18K | Jakubowski | 133 |
| CN China | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Якубовский | 2 |
| US United States | — | 3,513 | 1 in 95K | 3.6K | Jakubowski | 146 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Якубовский | 125 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Якубовський | 31 |
| BY Belarus | #460 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Якубовский | 16 |
| NO Norway | — | 144 | 1 in 38K | 144 | — | 7 |
17,913 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jakubowski is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
patronymic from the personal name Jakub (see Jacob).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ivan Yakubovskyb. 1912BYnot in their usual nameSoviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1912-1976)
- Franz Jakubowskib. 1912PLAmerican Marxist theorist (1912–1970)
- Maxim Jakubowskib. 1944GBBritish writer
- Bernd Jakubowskib. 1952DEEast German footballer (1952-2007)
- Dariusz Jakubowskib. 1959PLPolish actor
- Ihor Jakubovskyjb. 1960UAnot in their usual nameSoviet association football player
- Dmitry Yakubovskiyb. 1963RUnot in their usual namebusinessman
- Marcin Jakubowskib. 1972PLfounder of Open Source Ecology
- Krzysztof Jakubowskib. 1983PLGrandmaster chess player
- Igor Jakubowskib. 1992PLPolish boxer
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 29 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 18K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 18K | #57 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.6K | #8,537 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.5K | #9,267 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.3K | #9,337 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 144 | #10,857 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 96 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 96 | #30,883 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- 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)
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Jakubowski mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name for someone from Jakubow, Jakubowo, or Jakubowice, all places named with Jakub, vernacular form of Latin Jacobus (see Jacob). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Jakubowski have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Jakubowski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jakubowski.
- Where is Jakubowski most common?
- Jakubowski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jakubowski?
- In Poland, the national register counted 17,913 people named Jakubowski in 2026, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Jakubowski compared with other names?
- In Poland, Jakubowski is the 97th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jakubowskiThe 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, “Jakubowski” — the 97th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.