How common is the surname Jeske?

3,015 people in the United States had the surname Jeske in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 102,403 Americans. It ranked 10,620th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Jeske?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Jeske identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Jeske getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,095 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,015 in 2010, down 2.6%.

The surname Jeske

A German surname, carried by 3,015 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex J200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Jeske is more common than 93.5% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Jeske, a pet form of the personal name Johannes.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,015 people named Jeske in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 102,403 Americans. That is down 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,095.

#10,620

rank among US surnames

3,015

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

-2.6%

change since 2000 (was #9,639)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,613	Kelch	3,018	102,301
#10,614	Boateng	3,017	102,335
#10,615	Vila	3,016	102,369
#10,620	Cardillo	3,015	102,403
#10,626	Leclerc	3,014	102,437
#10,628	Stefan	3,013	102,471

Who is named Jeske

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

96% of people named Jeske identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Yeske

Surnames that sound like Jeske

Jeske has the Soundex code J200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code J200.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Jeske come from?: Borrowed from German Jeske, a pet form of the personal name Johannes.
How common is the surname Jeske?: 3,015 people in the United States had the surname Jeske in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 102,403 Americans. It ranked 10,620th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Jeske?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Jeske identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Jeske getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,095 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,015 in 2010, down 2.6%.
What are other spellings of Jeske?: Yeske.