Jacobs Family History
Jacobs Name Meaning
Jewish and English: patronymic from the personal name
Jacob. As a Jewish surname it has also assimilated various
other patronymics from the same personal name, as for example
Jacobowitz.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Jacobs Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Jacobs families
 1,198 - 2,394  400 - 1,197 |
 1 - 399  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Jacobs families
|
1,505 - 3,008 502 - 1,504 |
1 - 501 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Jacobs families
|
36 - 69 13 - 35 |
1 - 12 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Jacobs census records
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Jacobs Family Origin
Jacobs Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Jacobs
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Jacobs Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Jacobs census records
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Jacobs Civil War Service Records
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