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The JESTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,407 4429 0.003 28
United States (1880 census) 1,682 3479 0.003 34
Change since 1880 +5725 -950 0 -6
Other Countries
Australia 2 266749 0 0
United Kingdom 62 25535 0 1
Top States for JESTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 653 3621 0.003 31
Georgia 537 2009 0.007 66
North Carolina 438 2606 0.005 54
Ohio 431 3408 0.004 38
Florida 397 5237 0.002 25
Top States for JESTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 372 310 0.047 475
Arkansas 352 1050 0.013 132
Georgia 537 2009 0.007 66
Oklahoma 220 2264 0.006 64
Maryland 308 2078 0.006 58

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called JESTER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called JESTER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called JESTER in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a JESTER by picking someone at random in Delaware than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of JESTER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the JESTER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the JESTER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of JESTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 792 10.69
White (Hispanic) 77 1.04
Mixed Race 73 0.99
Native American/Alaskan 39 0.53
Asian/Pacific 26 0.35
White (Caucasian) 6,400 86.4

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the JESTER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of JESTER in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of JESTER.

Similar names to JESTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JESTER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for JESTER

The following words are slight variants of JESTER that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.