Jenner
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jenner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Either 'engineer', or from the medieval German personal name Janudrius, literally 'January'.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 20K
- CACanada≈1 in 54K
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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 320 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Either 'engineer', or from the medieval German personal name Janudrius, literally 'January'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jenner 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Jenner | 201 |
| US United States | 2,574 | 1 in 129K | 2.6K | Jenner | 320 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 1 | Jenner | 134 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Jenner | 91 |
| CA Canada | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Jenner | 96 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Jenner | 62 |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Jenner is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Occupational name from Scots engynour ‘technician/engineer’, one who operates engines; early loss of the first syllable. Recorded as Anneys la Gennere in 1296.
as a nameScottish Surnames
occupational name for a designer or engineer, from a Middle English reduced form of Old French engineor ‘contriver’ (a derivative of engaigne ‘cunning’, ‘ingenuity’, ‘stratagem’, ‘device’). Engineers in the Middle Ages were primarily designers and builders of military machines, although in peacetime they might turn their hands to architecture and other more pacific functions.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from the Latin personal name Januarius (see January 1). Jdnner is a South German word for ‘January’, and so it is possible that this is one of the surnames acquired from words denoting months of the year, for example by converts who had been baptized in that month, people who were bom or baptized in that month, or people whose taxes were due in January.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, in Einzelfällen zu Johannes, sonst wohl Übername zu mhd./frnhd. jen(n)er 'Januar'. 558 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Berufs-/Spitzname aus dem Monatsnamen Januar/Jänner; Bezug auf den Januar bzw. eine im Januar geborene Person. Bearer count: 1015.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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)
- Edward Jennerb. 1749GBEnglish physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination (1749–1823)
- William E. Jennerb. 1908USAmerican politician (1908–1985)
- Caitlyn Jennerb. 1949USAmerican media personality and retired decathlete
- Kris Jennerb. 1955USAmerican media personality, socialite, and businesswoman
- Brandon Jennerb. 1981USAmerican actor
- Brody Jennerb. 1983USAmerican reality television personality and model
- Michelle Jennerb. 1986ESSpanish actress
- Blake Jennerb. 1992USAmerican actor
- Kendall Jennerb. 1995USAmerican media personality and model (born 1995)
- Kylie Jennerb. 1997USAmerican media personality
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 50 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.6K | #12,108 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.5K | #11,650 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,413 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Jenner mean, and where does it come from?
- Either 'engineer', or from the medieval German personal name Janudrius, literally 'January'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Jenner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Jenner in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jenner.
- How common is the name Jenner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,574 people named Jenner in 2010, about 1 in 129 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jennerThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Jenner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.