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jacobs Name Meaning and History

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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jacobs Family Facts

Distribution of jacobs Families in the US in 1920
Number of jacobs families
 1198-2394
 400-1197		 1-399
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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