van Jacobs Surname

3,185,033rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 38 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

van Jacobs Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

van Jacobs Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands211:804,15159,518
United States161:22,653,683662,747
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732

van Jacobs Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name van Jacobs Come From? nationality or country of origin

van Jacobs is carried by more people in The Netherlands than any other country or territory. It can be found as:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name van Jacobs? popularity and diffusion

van Jacobs is the 3,185,033rd most commonly occurring surname on a worldwide basis. It is borne by approximately 1 in 191,777,524 people. The last name van Jacobs occurs mostly in Europe, where 55 percent of van Jacobs live; 55 percent live in Western Europe and 55 percent live in Germanic Europe.

The surname van Jacobs is most frequently used in The Netherlands, where it is carried by 21 people, or 1 in 804,151. In The Netherlands it is most common in: Limburg, where 43 percent live, South Holland, where 38 percent live and Flevoland, where 5 percent live. Outside of The Netherlands this surname exists in 2 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 42 percent live and South Africa, where 3 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Vanjacobs9513/
von Jacobs907/
von Jacob842/
Finné-Jacobs641/

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to van Jacobs
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