Find out how popular the last name Jarboe is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Jarboe.

Jarboe, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Jarboe surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Jarboe in America

Jarboe is the 11200th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Jarboe surname appeared 2,822 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 people would have the surname Jarboe.

We can also compare 2010 data for Jarboe to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Jarboe

The surname Jarboe is believed to have originated in France, stemming from the old French word "jarbe" which means "sheaf of grain." It is thought to have been an occupational name for someone who worked with sheaves or bundles of grains or crops.

The earliest known record of the Jarboe surname dates back to the 13th century in the region of Normandy, France. It appears in various spellings such as Jarbeau, Jarbeaux, and Jarbault in historical records of that time.

One of the earliest documented instances of the name can be found in the Walloon region of Belgium, where a man named Jean Jarboe was recorded as a landowner in the town of Nivelles in the year 1327.

In England, the name Jarboe is believed to have been introduced during the Norman Conquest in the 11th century. The first known bearer of the name in England was William Jarboe, who was listed as a landowner in the Domesday Book of 1086.

Throughout history, several notable individuals have borne the surname Jarboe. One such figure was Jacques Jarboe (1615-1692), a French explorer and cartographer who was among the first Europeans to map the Great Lakes region of North America.

Another prominent Jarboe was Henri Jarboe (1789-1862), a French military officer who served under Napoleon Bonaparte and later became a respected military strategist and writer on warfare tactics.

In the United States, one of the earliest recorded individuals with the Jarboe surname was John Jarboe (1745-1822), who fought in the American Revolutionary War and later settled in Virginia.

A notable American figure with the Jarboe name was Thomas Jarboe (1810-1888), a pioneering farmer and landowner in Missouri who played a significant role in the state's agricultural development.

Martha Jarboe (1892-1976) was an American educator and advocate for women's rights, who served as the president of the National Education Association from 1948 to 1949.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Jarboe

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Jarboe.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Jarboe was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Jarboe has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Jarboe was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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