Jakobsen Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Jakobsen is a familiar spelling of the German name Jakob. Taken at its root, Jakobsen points to “From Jakob (Jacob)”.

Family crest and blazon

Arms linked to Jakob and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

A variant of Jakob

Jakobsen adds a patronymic ending to Jakob, marking ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. The same family of names includes Jakobson, Jakobsson and Jakoby.

The 2010 US Census counted 408 people named Jakobsen, ranking it number 51,066 among American surnames. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Jacobson. Research your Jakobsen family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.