Jobe

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jobe is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the Gambia it is the 8th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: To harangue, to rebuke in a long-winded or drawn-out way.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 17K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 39K
  • CACanada1 in 46K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈9.6K ●

across 17 countries

Sources
333 ●

85K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.9K ◐

St. Vincent & Grenadines

Meaning & origin●

To harangue, to rebuke in a long-winded or drawn-out way.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jobe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—8,53672K rec.1 in 39K8.5KJobe333
GB United Kingdom—2,9783K rec.—listedJobe89
ZA South Africa—1,7502.1K rec.——Jobe29
CA Canada—1,6141.7K rec.—1Jobe57
AU Australia—1,0481.4K rec.—9Jobe48
DE Germany—433434 rec.——Jobe44
IT Italy—376395 rec.—1Jobe16
SE Sweden—323△117 rec.1 in 32K323Jobe40
CN China—241257 rec.——Jobe6
GM Gambia#8200290 rec.—3Jobe70
ES Spain—172115 rec.1 in 291K172—15
BE Belgium—12298 rec.1 in 96K122Jobe14

Roughly 8.5K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 39K). 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●

  • English77K80%
  • Spanish3.9K4%
  • 2.3K2%
  • French2.1K2%
  • Swahili1.5K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English77,40880%
Spanish3,8924%
2,2872%
French2,0832%
Swahili1,5472%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jobe is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname7.3K records spelled Jobe4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, South Africa, United Kingdom

    Also written Jóbé, Jôbe

  • a separate surname2.8K records spelled Jobe2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India

    Also written Jobé

  • French surname2.6K records spelled Jobe3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Jobé

  • Arabic surname562 records spelled Jobe3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, United States, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom

    Also written Jobę

61 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Jobe is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In frm, stupid, gullible

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Štats Nigērijā ("Yobe"), administratīvais centrs - Damaturu, platība - 45502 kvadrātkilometri, 2321600 iedzīvotāju (2006. g.), atrodas valsts ziemeļaustrumu daļā

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

020406019001950200041 · 2003

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Jobe in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1882–2025
Yearrecords
18826
18876
18976
191610
19178
191811
191910
192011
19216
19228
19235
192414
19256
19269
192810
19297
19305
19317
19327
19345
19355
19375
19398
19405
19425
19436
19476
19507
195212
19535
19566
19577
19587
19598
19605
19637
19656
19685
19695
19705
19717
197210
197313
197412
197514
197612
197714
19788
197917
198011
19819
198210
198312
19847
19857
198615
198718
198815
198912
199010
199114
199213
199323
199418
199524
199618
199730
199827
199927
200029
200130
200235
200341
200429
200536
200639
200724
200823
200923
201026
201129
201230
201323
201428
201516
201620
201721
201820
201913
202019
202111
20229
202315
202412
202515

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 95 years between 1882–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

192019401960198020002020Frank Jobe, b. 1925Baba Jobe, b. 1959Maba Jobe, b. 1964Trevor Jobe, b. 1967Kari Jobe, b. 1981Sara Jobe, b. 1994Josh Jobe, b. 1998Ousman Jobe, b. 2005

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 51 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Jobe
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020108.5K#4,151
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020208.4K#4,122
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020008K#4,115
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020972#12,438
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—669#5,044
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—660#12,061
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022440—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—438#14,608
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1990388—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1980333—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—323#2,776
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1970262—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname 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 · 200 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jobe?
We estimate roughly 9.6 thousand people bear Jobe (counting its spellings and scripts) across 17 countries in our records.
In which country does Jobe have the most bearers?
We estimate about 8.5 thousand people bear Jobe in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled jobe.
How common is Jobe compared with other names?
In the Gambia, Jobe is the 8th most common surname of 152 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Jobe mean?
Recorded meaning: To harangue, to rebuke in a long-winded or drawn-out way.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Jobe” — the 8th most common surname in Gambia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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