The Jaber surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,601 people carried this name — #12,005 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 113,600 people counted. That is up 13% from 2,303 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 233 people named Jaber live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
118 people named Jaber live in Switzerland.
They live in 8 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 67 people named Jaber.
Most of them — 52 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 7 départements, most often Seine-Maritime.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
702 people named Jaber are counted in Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Jaber in American newspapers,
1901–1960.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 289,302 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Jaber,
with a public archive behind them.
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Anis Melhem Jaber 1905–1983 · writer -
Hisham Jaber 1942– · businessperson -
Bassam Jaber 1950– · journalist -
Ali Jaber 1954–2005 · imam -
Inaya Jaber 1958–2021 · writer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 43 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Jaber.
- Izard 626 · U.S. census
- Izquierdo 5,974 · U.S. census
- Izzi 958 · U.S. census
- Izzo 4,717 · U.S. census
- Jaafar 453 · U.S. census
- Jabbour 847 · U.S. census
- Jabin 141 · U.S. census
- Jablonski 7,469 · U.S. census
- Jabri 251 · U.S. census
- Jaccard 151 · U.S. census
- Jach 237 · U.S. census
- Jacinto 6,238 · U.S. census
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