Jaëger
surname · Latin script
Jaëger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 12,436 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: occupational name for a hunter. Middle High Germanjeger(e). Middle Low German jeger(e) (agent derivatives ofjagen ‘to hunt’); as a Jewish surname, it is mainly ornamental, derived from German Jager.
- USUnited States1 in 27K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 27K
- SESweden1 in 74K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 201 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
12,436 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jaeger in US United States, CH Switzerland, NL Netherlands.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)occupational name for a hunter. Middle High Germanjeger(e). Middle Low German jeger(e) (agent derivatives ofjagen ‘to hunt’); as a Jewish surname, it is mainly ornamental, derived from German Jager. The surname is also established in Scandinavia (Swedish Jager; Danish and Norwegian Jaeger) and has been Latinized as Venator.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Jaëger is found
(measured from records)Jaëger counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 12,436 | 1 in 27K | 12K | Jaeger | 106 |
| BR Brazil | 2,295 | 1 in 92K | 2.3K | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 306 | 1 in 27K | 306 | Jaeger | 28 |
| NL Netherlands | 148 | 1 in 117K | 148 | Jaeger | 11 |
| SE Sweden | 137 | 1 in 74K | 137 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 50 | 1 in 109K | 50 | — | 3 |
12,436 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jaëger mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a hunter. Middle High Germanjeger(e). Middle Low German jeger(e) (agent derivatives ofjagen ‘to hunt’); as a Jewish surname, it is mainly ornamental, derived from German Jager. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Jaëger?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Jaëger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jaeger. After it come Brazil, Switzerland, Netherlands and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Jaëger most common?
- Jaëger is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 27 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jaëger?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,436 people named Jaëger in 2010, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ja%C3%ABgerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jaëger” — ranked 2695th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.