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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