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

Jurries, 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 Jurries surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Jurries in America

Jurries is the 81181st most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Jurries surname appeared 233 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Jurries.

We can also compare 2010 data for Jurries 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 Jurries

The surname "JURRIES" is believed to have originated in the Netherlands during the 16th century. It is derived from the Dutch word "jurriaan," which is a variant of the name "Jurriaen," a Dutch form of the biblical name "Jeremiah." This name was particularly popular in the provinces of Holland and Utrecht.

In the early 17th century, the name "JURRIES" can be found in various records and documents from the Netherlands, including church registers and municipal archives. One of the earliest recorded instances of this surname is in the baptismal records of the Reformed Church in Amsterdam, where a child named "Pieter Jurries" was baptized in 1618.

During the Dutch Golden Age, the name "JURRIES" was associated with several prominent individuals. In 1632, a merchant named "Jurriaan van der Velde" was granted a charter to establish a trading company in the Dutch East Indies. Another notable figure was "Jurriaan Andriessen," a renowned painter from Haarlem who lived from 1587 to 1659.

As the Dutch expanded their colonial empire, the surname "JURRIES" spread to various parts of the world. In the 17th and 18th centuries, it can be found in records from Dutch settlements in South Africa, Indonesia, and the Caribbean islands.

One notable bearer of the name "JURRIES" was "Jurriaan Andriessen van Ravesteyn," a Dutch colonial governor who served in Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) from 1690 to 1692. Another individual of note was "Jurriaan Huizinga," a Dutch historian and cultural theorist who lived from 1872 to 1945 and is best known for his work "The Waning of the Middle Ages."

In the United States, the name "JURRIES" first appeared in the late 19th century, likely brought by Dutch immigrants. One of the earliest recorded individuals with this surname was "Jurriaan van der Sluis," a Dutch-American businessman who founded the Van der Sluis Bulb Company in Holland, Michigan, in 1909.

Throughout its history, the surname "JURRIES" has maintained its Dutch origins and has been associated with various individuals from the Netherlands and Dutch diaspora communities around the world.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Jurries

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

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 Jurries 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 Jurries 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 Jurries was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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