Jaeger

At the 2020 census, 12,252 Americans bore the surname Jaeger — 2,870th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 24,400.

By the numbers

People: 12,252
Rank: 2,870th
How common: 1 in 24,400
Per 100,000: 4.1

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Jaeger described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Jaeger

Werner Jaeger (1888–1961)German-American classical philologist
Andrea Jaeger (born 1965)US tennis player
Hans Jæger (1854–1910)Norwegian anarchist
Sam Jaeger (born 1977)American actor
Lorenz Jaeger (1892–1975)Catholic cardinal
Henriette Jæger (born 2003)Norwegian athletics competitor
Connor Jaeger (born 1991)American swimmer

People named Jaeger with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Also a first name

Jaeger has been given to 844 American babies as a first name since 1993, peaking in 2002. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.