Jumel

surname · Latin script

Meaning: L’ingénieur franco-suisse A

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ʒymɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Jumel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M
  • BEBelgium1 in 2M

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.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,000 people, est.

Sources
189 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in French

L’ingénieur franco-suisse A. Jumel conseilla à Méhémet-Ali d’introduire en Égypte la culture intensive du coton à longues fibres ainsi que celle du lin et du chanvre. Il est à l’origine de la place qu’occupe aujourd’hui le coton en Égypte. Le coton jumel est un coton à longues fibres produit en Égypte.

Sources 1

  • 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jumel 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.

Where Jumel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈2,000 est.≈1 in 34K245Jumel189
US United States≈46 est.≈1 in 7.3M101Jumel28
PL Poland≈9 est.≈1 in 4.2M2——
CH Switzerland71 in 1.2M7——
ES Spain61 in 8.3M6Jumel4
BE Belgium61 in 2M6Jumel6

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jumel is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Philippines, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Jümël

  • Bangla surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh

    Also written জুমেল

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

175018001850190019502000Jean-Marie Jumel, b. 1772Eliza Jumel, b. 1775Antoine Valentin Jumel de Noireterre, b. 1824François-Henri Jumel, b. 1847Betty Jumel, b. 1901Robert Jumel, b. 1920Jean-Claude Jumel, b. 1943Pascal Jumel, b. 1961Ludovic Jumel, b. 1969Sébastien Jumel, b. 1971

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)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Jumel, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Jumel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941367—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951354—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971337—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961329—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921301—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981290—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931265—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991245—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1901230—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1911223—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1891125—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20247#79,838

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

How do you pronounce Jumel?
A machine transcription gives /ʒymɛl/ (IPA) for French.
What does the name Jumel mean?
Recorded meaning: L’ingénieur franco-suisse A.
In which country does Jumel have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Jumel in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jumel.
How common is the name Jumel?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 7 people named Jumel in 2024, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.

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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, “Jumel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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