Jager

At the 2020 census, 3,578 Americans bore the surname Jager — 8,795th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 83,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,578
Rank: 8,795th
How common: 1 in 83,500
Per 100,000: 1.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Jager

Nikkie de Jager (born 1994)Dutch video blogger and make-up artist
Tom Jager (born 1964)American swimmer
Evan Jager (born 1989)American athletics competitor
Cornelis de Jager (1921–2021)Dutch astronomer, university professor, pioneer of space science, science communicator and opponent of pseudoscience
Maja Jager (born 1991)Danish archer
Karl Jäger (1888–1959)Swiss-born SS officer and Einsatzkommando leader
Gustav Jäger (1832–1917)German naturalist and hygienist
Willigis Jäger (1925–2020)German Buddhist teacher

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

Surnames like Jager

Jaggers

Also a first name

Jager has been given to 610 American babies as a first name since 1992, peaking in 2001. See it as a given name.

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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.