Jakubs
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jəkəbz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jakubs is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Latvia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jakubs counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | — | 5 | — |
| EE Estonia | — | listed | — |
| US United States | — | listed | — |
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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jakubs 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.
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Abu Yusufb. 731IQnot in their usual nameArab Muslim Scholar and jurist (died 798)
- Al-Kindib. 801IQnot in their usual nameMuslim Arab philosopher, mathematician and physician (c.801–873)
- Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansurb. 1160MAnot in their usual nameRuler of the Almohad Caliphate from 1184 to 1199
- Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd Al-Haqqb. 1212MAnot in their usual nameMarinid Sultan of Algeria (r. 1258–1286)
- Al-Mustamsikb. 1470EGnot in their usual name16th Caliph of Cairo
- Jacob Frankb. 1726UAnot in their usual namePolish-Jewish religious leader
- Yakub Begb. 1820UZnot in their usual nameKing of Kashgaria (1820–1877)
- Mohammad Yaqub Khanb. 1849AFnot in their usual nameEmir of Afghanistan during 1879 (1849–1923)
- Yakov Ganetskyb. 1879PLnot in their usual nameSoviet politician (1879-1937)
- Yakub Kolasb. 1882BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian writer (1882–1956)
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 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Jakubs?
- A machine transcription gives /jəkəbz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jakubs have the most bearers?
- Jakubs is most frequently recorded in Latvia.
What do you want to know about Jakubs?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jakubsThe 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, “Jakubs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.