Jessup
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jessup 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 Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from the personal name, a variant of Joseph, representing the usual pronunciation of the name in the Middle Ages.
- 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●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jessop in GB United Kingdom, AU Australia, NZ New Zealand and 12 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●
from the personal name, a variant of Joseph, representing the usual pronunciation of the name in the Middle Ages.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
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 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English67K83%
- Spanish2.4K3%
- 1.7K2%
- Welsh9571%
- German8261%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 67,491 | 83% |
| Spanish | 2,356 | 3% |
| 1,653 | 2% | |
| Welsh | 957 | 1% |
| German | 826 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1948 | 5 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1976 | 7 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1979 | 12 |
| 1980 | 13 |
| 1981 | 12 |
| 1985 | 9 |
| 1986 | 8 |
| 1988 | 12 |
| 1989 | 11 |
| 1990 | 8 |
| 1991 | 18 |
| 1992 | 10 |
| 1993 | 19 |
| 1994 | 15 |
| 1995 | 23 |
| 1996 | 12 |
| 1997 | 8 |
| 1998 | 21 |
| 1999 | 17 |
| 2000 | 10 |
| 2001 | 19 |
| 2002 | 10 |
| 2003 | 10 |
| 2004 | 12 |
| 2005 | 14 |
| 2007 | 13 |
| 2008 | 9 |
| 2009 | 8 |
| 2010 | 12 |
| 2011 | 8 |
| 2012 | 8 |
| 2013 | 8 |
| 2014 | 7 |
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 8 |
| 2017 | 12 |
| 2019 | 9 |
| 2020 | 10 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 8 |
| 2023 | 9 |
| 2025 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 44 years between 1948–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Marion Jessupb. 1896USAmerican tennis player (1896–1980)
- Philip Jessupb. 1897USAmerican diplomat, scholar, and jurist (1897–1986)
- Morris K. Jessupb. 1900USAmerican UFO writer (1900–1959)
- Richard Jessupb. 1925USAmerican writer (1925–1982)
- Georgia Mills Jessupb. 1926USAmerican painter and ceramicist (1926-2016)
- Harley Jessupb. 1954USAmerican production designer and visual effects artist
- Ted Jessupb. 1960USAmerican television personality
- Paul Jessupb. 1977USAmerican writer and video game designer (1977-)
- Connor Jessupb. 1994CACanadian actor
- Justinian Jessupb. 1998USAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
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 15 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7K | #4,615 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7K | #5,037 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.6K | #5,153 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 431 | #22,610 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 14 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 · 62 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jessup?
- We estimate roughly 7.0 thousand people bear Jessup (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jessup have the most bearers?
- Jessup is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled jessop.
- How common is Jessup compared with other names?
- In Lesotho, Jessup is the 8th most common surname of 3,869 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Jessup mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the personal name, a variant of Joseph, representing the usual pronunciation of the name in the Middle Ages.
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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, “Jessup” — the 8th most common surname in Lesotho. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.