Yaacobi

surname · Latin script

Yaacobi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Israel it is the 68th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • ILIsrael1 in 2.3Kas יעקבי(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 35Kas Jacoby
  • FRFrance≈1 in 8M

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 Yaacobi 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.

United States (measured from records)

9,372 named Jacoby, 2010

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
108 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 8.0M (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

יעקביHebrew(measured from records)
ЯкобиCyrillic(measured from records)
JacobyLatin(measured from records)

8 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jacoby in BE Belgium, RO Romania, יעקבי in IL Israel, Yacoby in US United States and יעקובי in AR Argentina.

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.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Yaacobi 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.

Where Yaacobi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—9,372as Jacoby1 in 35K9.4KYacoby70
IL Israel#683,813as יעקבי1 in 2.3K3.8Kיעקבי46
BR Brazil—1,149as Jacoby1 in 184K1.1K—3
AR Argentina—1,009as Jacobi1 in 45K1Kיעקובי3
RO Romania#922≈980 est.≈1 in 22K—Jacoby4
BE Belgium—607as Jacoby1 in 19K607Jacoby3
NL Netherlands—607as Jacobi1 in 28K607Yakobi2
DK Denmark—219as Jacobi1 in 27K219—2
FR France—≈8 est.≈1 in 8M70Yaakobi3

9,372 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling jacoby. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Yaacobi is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco

    Also written Yaâcobi

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Яакоби

17 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Yaacobi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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

In which country does Yaacobi have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 9.4 thousand people named Jacoby, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Yaacobi?
In the United States, the national register counted 9,372 people named Jacoby in 2010, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
How common is Yaacobi compared with other names?
In Israel, Yaacobi is the 68th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Yaacobi” — the 68th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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