Jobst
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a short form of Job/Jobs, with added -t
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/joːpst/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jobst is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- ATAustria
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)from a short form of Job/Jobs, with added -t
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Jobst is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from the Biblical name Job, influenced by Jost (see Joost).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, Patronym zu dem Rufnamen Jobst, einer Form von Jodocus; in Bayern gehäuft. Bearer count: 71 Tokens (PLZ 924 Schwandorf), 149 Tokens (PLZ 931 Burglengenfeld).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Jodocus; ges. 621
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, männl. Vom., der aus der Vermischung von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In German, Patronym zu Rufname Jodocus/Judocus; Kontaminationsform aus Jost mit Job (Hiob). 2137 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)- Karl Jobstb. 1835ATAustrian painter (1835-1907)
- Wilhelm Meier-Jobstb. 1842DEGerman politician (1842-1916)
- Wilhelm Jobstb. 1912DEGerman physician and SS doctor in the Nazi concentration camps (1912-1947)
- Jola Jobstb. 1913DEGerman actress
- Herbert Jobstb. 1915DEEast German writer (1915-1990)
- John Jobstb. 1920DEGerman-born Australian Roman Catholic bishop (1920-2014)
- Dionys Jobstb. 1927DEGerman politician (1927-2017)
- Rolf Jobstb. 1951DEEast German rower (1951–2020)
- Marc Jobstb. 1961GBBritish film director
- Kerstin S. Jobstb. 1963DEGerman historianof Eastern Europe, non-fiction writer and university teacher (b. 1963)
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)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 573 | #41,034 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 572 | #36,807 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 568 | #38,850 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 36 | #16,447 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 31 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 26 | #164,002 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 25 | #45,055 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 19 | #37,994 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #178,580 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #52,251 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Jobst mean, and where does it come from?
- from a short form of Job/Jobs, with added -t Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Jobst?
- A machine transcription gives /joːpst/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Jobst have the most bearers?
- Jobst is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jobstThe 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
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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, “Jobst”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.