Jessop
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jessop is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In Lesotho it is the 8th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Welsh, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A pronunciation of Joseph; first attested William Josep 1296 SRSx.
- AUAustralia1 in 13K◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 24K
- CACanada1 in 28K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈7.0K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 312 ●
- 1 in 3.5K ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
107K records
Official registry-verified
St. Vincent & Grenadines
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Jessup in US United States, CA Canada, IT Italy and 11 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
A pronunciation of Joseph; first attested William Josep 1296 SRSx.
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | 9,777 | 7.9K rec. | — | — | Jessop | 134 |
| US United States | — | 6,964 | 84K rec. | 1 in 48K | 7K | Jessup | 312 |
| AU Australia | — | 6,337 | 5.9K rec. | — | 1 | Jessop | 111 |
| CA Canada | — | 2,669 | 2.5K rec. | — | — | Jessup | 87 |
| IT Italy | — | 480 | 501 rec. | — | listed | Jessup | 11 |
| DE Germany | — | 325 | 324 rec. | — | — | Jessup | 20 |
| RU Russia | — | 269 | 286 rec. | — | — | Jessup | 7 |
| LS Lesotho | #8 | 249 | 587 rec. | — | — | Jessup | 1 |
| IE Ireland | — | 235 | 231 rec. | — | — | Jessup | 25 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 192 | 193 rec. | — | — | Jessop | 38 |
| MR Mauritania | #20 | 182 | 201 rec. | — | — | Jessup | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 149 | 209 rec. | — | — | Jessop | 21 |
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Languages●
- English34K78%
- Welsh3.6K8%
- Spanish1K2%
- 7532%
- German4481%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 33,967 | 78% |
| Welsh | 3,601 | 8% |
| Spanish | 1,039 | 2% |
| 753 | 2% | |
| German | 448 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- William Jessopb. 1745GBBritish civil engineer (1745-1814)
- Anne Beecheyb. 1764GBnot in their usual nameBritish portrait painter
- Gilbert Jessopb. 1874GBCricket player of England. (1874-1955)
- Violet Jessopb. 1887ARTitanic crew member (1887–1971)
- T. E. Jessopb. 1896GBBritish philosopher (1896-1980)
- Job Dean Jessopb. 1926USAmerican jockey (1926-2001)
- Don Jessopb. 1927AUAustralian politician (1927–2018)
- Bob Jessopb. 1946GBBritish academic
- Peter Jessopb. 1964USAmerican actor
- Tommy Jessopb. 1985GBBritish actor
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●
Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 25 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jessop?
- We estimate roughly 7.0 thousand people bear Jessop (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jessop have the most bearers?
- Jessop is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled jessop.
- How common is Jessop compared with other names?
- In Lesotho, Jessop is the 8th most common surname of 3,869 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Jessop mean?
- Recorded meaning: A pronunciation of Joseph; first attested William Josep 1296 SRSx.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jessop” — the 8th most common surname in Lesotho. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.