Jeger
surname · Latin script
Meaning: hunter
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒɡɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jeger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 15K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 38K
- SISlovenia1 in 64K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
566 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jéger in HU Hungary.
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)
hunter
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jeger 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 566 | 1 in 15K | 566 | Jeger | 36 |
| PL Poland | 289 | 1 in 132K | 145 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 439K | — | Jeger | 42 |
| HR Croatia | 112 | 1 in 38K | 112 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 4.6M | listed | Jeger | 68 |
| HU Hungary | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 234K | — | Jéger | 18 |
| SI Slovenia | 33 | 1 in 64K | 33 | — | 1 |
566 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jeger is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, indefinite plural of jeg
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Santo Jegerb. 1898GBBritish politician (1898-1953)
- George Jegerb. 1903GBBritish politician (1903-1971)
- Sergey Egerb. 1914RUnot in their usual nameSoviet aeronautical engineer, scientist, aeroplane designer (1914-1987)
- Oskar Jegerb. 1917UAAustrian chemist and professor at ETH Zurich
- Max Jegerb. 1923CHDr. math. ETH Zürich 1949
- Milan Jegerb. 1931BAYugoslav swimmer (1931-2007)
- Ben Jegerb. 1953CHSwiss film score composer
- Rujana Jegerb. 1968HRCroatian writer
- Veronika Jégerb. 1969HUHungarian bicycle racer
- Mateja Jegerb. 1995HRCroatian table tennis player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 566 | #2,267 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 145 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 145 | #21,588 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 144 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 144 | #22,175 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 112 | #7,185 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 104 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 33 | #10,092 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jeger mean, and where does it come from?
- hunter Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Jeger?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒɡɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jeger have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 566 people named Jeger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jeger.
- Where is Jeger most common?
- Jeger is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jeger?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 566 people named Jeger in 2024, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jegerThe 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, “Jeger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.