Jaquet
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the French personal name Jacques
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jaquet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 5.3K
- ARArgentina1 in 52K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
1,574 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a pet form of the French personal name Jacques.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jaquet 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 1,574 | 1 in 5.3K | 1.6K | Jaquet | 35 |
| AR Argentina | 867 | 1 in 52K | 867 | — | — |
| US United States | 263 | 1 in 1.3M | 278 | Jaquet | 121 |
| NL Netherlands | 163 | 1 in 106K | 163 | Jaquet | 19 |
| BR Brazil | 143 | 1 in 1.5M | 143 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 47 | 1 in 125K | 47 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 47 | 1 in 249K | 47 | Jaquet | 4 |
1,574 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Jaquet 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 French, variant of Jackett, under French influence.
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)
- Jean Jaquetb. 1754CHGenevan sculptor, interior designer, professor, decorator and politician (1754-1839)
- Jacques Jaquetb. 1828BEBelgian sculptor (1828–1899)
- Frank Jaquetb. 1885USAmerican actor (1885-1958)
- Marcel Jaquetb. 1910FRFrench official (1910–1984)
- Gérard Jaquetb. 1916FRFrench politician (1916–2013)
- Wendy Jaquetb. 1943USAmerican congresswoman in Idaho
- Chantal Jaquetb. 1956FRFrench philosopher
- Gilles Jaquetb. 1974CHSwiss snowboarder
- Christophe Jaquetb. 1976CHSwiss footballer
- Sabrina Jaquetb. 1987CHbadminton 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.6K | #660 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 867 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 278 | #74,891 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 274 | #67,317 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 263 | #73,666 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 163 | #12,657 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 143 | #48,212 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 47 | #27,341 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 47 | #11,284 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Jaquet mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the French personal name Jacques. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Jaquet have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Jaquet, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jaquet.
- Where is Jaquet most common?
- Jaquet is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jaquet?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,574 people named Jaquet in 2024, about 1 in 5.3 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jaquetThe 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, “Jaquet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.