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The JESSOP surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,810 10483 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 378 11991 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +2432 +1508 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 673 2399 0.004 41
United Kingdom 3,367 1852 0.007 73
Top States for JESSOP by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 665 501 0.030 298
California 194 15308 0.001 6
Arizona 177 4093 0.003 34
Montana 154 823 0.017 171
New York 149 15324 0.001 8
Top States for JESSOP by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 665 501 0.030 298
Montana 154 823 0.017 171
Rhode Island 58 3346 0.006 55
Wyoming 21 3988 0.004 43
South Dakota 31 5278 0.004 41

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

Classification and Origin of JESSOP

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 JESSOP 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 JESSOP 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 JESSOP in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 54 1.92
Asian/Pacific 38 1.35
Mixed Race 35 1.25
Black/African American 21 0.75
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.25
White (Caucasian) 2,655 94.48

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

Meaning of JESSOP in historical publications

JESSOP. From the Italian Giuseppe, Joseph ?

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 JESSOP

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JESSOP.

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 JESSOP

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