Jacoba
given name · Western Frisian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jacoba is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Western Frisian and English, written in the Latin script.
- NLNetherlands1 in 139◐
- ZASouth Africa1 in 4.6K
- USUnited States1 in 445K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈127K ●
- Sources
- 116 ●
- 1 in 139 ◐
across 9 countries
18K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 2
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #28 | 124,753△ | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 139 | 125K | Jacoba | 65 |
| ZA South Africa | #505 | 7,313 | 7.2K rec. | — | — | Jacoba | 37 |
| AU Australia | — | 971 | 904 rec. | — | 1 | Jacoba | 59 |
| ES Spain | — | 883△ | 84 rec. | 1 in 57K | 972 | Jacoba | 19 |
| US United States | — | 748 | 5.9K rec. | 1 in 445K | 748 | Jacoba | 116 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 336 | 309 rec. | — | listed | Jacoba | 30 |
| DE Germany | — | 223 | 192 rec. | — | 1 | Jacoba | 45 |
| CA Canada | — | 220 | 210 rec. | — | 1 | Jacoba | 25 |
| PH Philippines | — | 156 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Jacoba | 25 |
| SE Sweden | — | 115△ | 7 rec. | 1 in 89K | 115 | — | 4 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 99 | 139 rec. | — | — | Jacoba | 6 |
| PE Peru | — | 84 | 65 rec. | — | — | Jacoba | 16 |
Roughly 125K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 139). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Western Frisian165K34%
- English138K29%
- Dutch136K28%
- Spanish30K6%
- Swahili1.4K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Western Frisian | 165,150 | 34% |
| English | 138,154 | 29% |
| Dutch | 136,060 | 28% |
| Spanish | 30,474 | 6% |
| Swahili | 1,429 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1900 | 5 |
| 1911 | 7 |
| 1912 | 6 |
| 1913 | 9 |
| 1915 | 5 |
| 1916 | 11 |
| 1917 | 5 |
| 1918 | 10 |
| 1919 | 9 |
| 1920 | 5 |
| 1921 | 17 |
| 1922 | 10 |
| 1923 | 9 |
| 1924 | 8 |
| 1925 | 6 |
| 1927 | 5 |
| 1929 | 5 |
| 1930 | 6 |
| 1933 | 5 |
| 1938 | 7 |
| 1943 | 6 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1977 | 8 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1979 | 8 |
| 1980 | 8 |
| 1981 | 8 |
| 1982 | 11 |
| 1983 | 7 |
| 1985 | 7 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1988 | 8 |
| 1989 | 10 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1995 | 9 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1998 | 7 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2023 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 41 years between 1900–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Jakobea of Badenb. 1558DEnot in their usual nameMargravine of Baden by birth, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg by marriage (1558-1597)
- Codien Zwaardemaker-Visscherb. 1835NLnot in their usual nameDutch feminist, translator and writer, editor (1835–1912)
- Jacoba van Heemskerckb. 1876NLDutch painter (1876-1923)
- Elena Fortúnb. 1886ESnot in their usual nameSpanish writer (1886-1952)
- Kiky Gerritsen-Heinsiusb. 1921NLnot in their usual nameDutch resistance fighter
- Coby Timpb. 1930NLnot in their usual nameDutch actress (1930–2025)
- Coosje van Bruggenb. 1942NLnot in their usual nameDutch and American sculptor and painter (1942–2009)
- Henny Vrientenb. 1948NLnot in their usual nameDutch musician (1948–2022)
- Coby van Baalenb. 1957NLnot in their usual nameequestrian
- Cobie Smuldersb. 1982CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress (born 1982)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 44 sources across 25 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 368 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jacoba?
- We estimate roughly 127 thousand people bear Jacoba (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jacoba have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 125 thousand people bear Jacoba in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled jacoba.
- Where is Jacoba most common?
- Jacoba is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 139 people carrying it.
- How common is Jacoba compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Jacoba is the 28th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
- Is Jacoba a male or female name?
- Jacoba is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jacoba” — the 28th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.