Jumper Surname
Approximately 4,168 people bear this surname
Jumper Surname Definition:
The first Mr. Jumper would appear to have derived his name not from his saltatory skill, but from his having been a maker of jumps, a kind of short leather coat or boddice, formerly worn by women. See Bailey and Halliwell. Jumper is also a northern provincialism for a miner's boring tool, and may have been metaphorically applied to the miner himself.
Read More About This SurnameJumper Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4,079 | 1:88,860 | 10,003 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Peru | 8 | 1:3,973,015 | 32,693 |
| Brazil | 7 | 1:30,582,047 | 441,004 |
| Canada | 7 | 1:5,263,656 | 239,735 |
| Thailand | 6 | 1:11,773,058 | 553,295 |
| France | 6 | 1:11,070,454 | 349,096 |
| England | 5 | 1:11,143,612 | 252,590 |
| China | 5 | 1:273,464,313 | 13,838 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Turkey | 2 | 1:38,910,711 | 171,901 |
| Australia | 2 | 1:13,497,850 | 222,987 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Scotland | 2 | 1:2,676,908 | 51,579 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 14 | 1:1,741,098 | 55,534 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 509 | 1:98,661 | 10,028 |
Jumper (64) may also be a first name.
Jumper Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
The first Mr. Jumper would appear to have derived his name not from his saltatory skill, but from his having been a maker of jumps, a kind of short leather coat or boddice, formerly worn by women. See Bailey and Halliwell. Jumper is also a northern provincialism for a miner's boring tool, and may have been metaphorically applied to the miner himself.
From Jeane Pierre. Lower thinks the name means a maker of jumps, a short leather coat or boddice formerly worn by women.
Jumper Demographics
Average Jumper Salary in
United States
$41,401 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Jumper Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Jumper Come From? nationality or country of origin
Jumper occurs in The United States more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of Jumper.
How Common Is The Last Name Jumper? popularity and diffusion
The last name Jumper is the 111,432nd most frequently occurring last name globally It is held by around 1 in 1,748,452 people. This last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 98 percent of Jumper live; 98 percent live in North America and 98 percent live in Anglo-North America. Jumper is also the 1,223,525th most prevalent given name worldwide, borne by 64 people.
The last name is most commonly held in The United States, where it is borne by 4,079 people, or 1 in 88,860. In The United States it is most common in: Pennsylvania, where 16 percent reside, Texas, where 14 percent reside and South Carolina, where 10 percent reside. Other than The United States Jumper is found in 31 countries. It also occurs in Morocco, where 0 percent reside and Peru, where 0 percent reside.
Jumper Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Jumper has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Jumper surname increased 801 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it contracted 64 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Jumper Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Jumper surname are 13.64% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 60.41% being registered with the political party.
The amount Jumper earn in different countries varies markedly. In Peru they earn 49.24% less than the national average, earning S/. 9,839 per year and in United States they earn 4.05% less than the national average, earning $41,401 USD per year.
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Jumper Reference & Research
Schumpert/Jumper FamilyTree DNA Project - A description of a group researching the paternal lines of men who bear the surname with the help of DNA analysis.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Jumper
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