About the Jakobs Surname

If your family name is Jakobs, its origin lies with Jacobs, a long-established English surname. Jakobs writes “k” in place of the “c” found in Jacobs, a common scribal difference. Read literally, Jakobs points to “Son of Jacob”. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.

You may also find the name written Jacob and Jacobson.

Arms linked to Jacobs and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Jakobs report, with a museum-style coat of arms.