Yacobs Surname
Approximately 96 people bear this surname
Yacobs Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 69 | 1:1,916,655 | 121,671 |
| Argentina | 21 | 1:2,035,401 | 100,871 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
Yacobs Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yacobs Come From? nationality or country of origin
Yacobs is most common in Indonesia. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Yacobs? popularity and diffusion
The surname Yacobs is the 1,894,523rd most widespread surname worldwide, borne by around 1 in 75,911,937 people. It occurs predominantly in Asia, where 52 percent of Yacobs live; 52 percent live in Southeast Asia and 52 percent live in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia.
This surname is most common in Indonesia, where it is borne by 69 people, or 1 in 1,916,655. In Indonesia it is most numerous in: North Sulawesi, where 33 percent reside, West Papua, where 28 percent reside and East Kalimantan, where 14 percent reside. Other than Indonesia Yacobs is found in 6 countries. It is also common in Argentina, where 22 percent reside and The United States, where 2 percent reside.
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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 Yacobs
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