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The JUMPER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,356 8959 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 509 9532 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +2847 +573 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 2 35517 0 0
Top States for JUMPER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 554 3045 0.005 45
South Carolina 426 1670 0.011 106
Texas 405 5465 0.002 19
Mississippi 186 2221 0.007 65
Arkansas 166 2327 0.006 62
Top States for JUMPER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 426 1670 0.011 106
Mississippi 186 2221 0.007 65
Arkansas 166 2327 0.006 62
Pennsylvania 554 3045 0.005 45
Oklahoma 110 4392 0.003 32

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

Classification and Origin of JUMPER

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the JUMPER surname.

Ethnic distribution of JUMPER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 401 11.95
Native American/Alaskan 233 6.94
Mixed Race 41 1.22
White (Hispanic) 21 0.63
Asian/Pacific 13 0.39
White (Caucasian) 2,647 78.87

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

JUMPER is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of JUMPER in historical publications

JUMPER. Tlie first \Ir. Jtimper would appear to have derived his name not from his saltatory skill, but from his having been a maker of jumjs, a kind of short leather coat or boddice, formerly worn by women. See Bailey aud llalliwell. Jumper is also a northern proviucialism for a miner's boriug tool, and may have been metaphorically applied to tlie miner himself.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to JUMPER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JUMPER.

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 JUMPER

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