Jára

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a diminutive of the male given names Jaroslav or Jaromír

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jára is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 5.1K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 38K
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 698

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

50,138 people

Sources
287 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 698 (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jara in AR Argentina, US United States, EC Ecuador and 2 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a diminutive of the male given names Jaroslav or Jaromír

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jára counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Jára is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina—50,1381 in 90750KJara3
EC Ecuador—23,4501 in 72123KJara51
ES Spain—9,8471 in 5.1K9.8KJara67
US United States—8,7901 in 38K8.8KJara287
CR Costa Rica—7,3071 in 6987.3K—2
CZ Czechia—3511 in 30K351—1
PY Paraguay#718———Jara29

50,138 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jára is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Chile, Peru, Argentina, Paraguay

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic

    Also written Jara, Järä, J'Ara, Járá, Jârâ

  • Polish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, Poland, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Jara, Jará, Jãra

  • Hungarian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Argentina, United States, Spain

    Also written Jara, Járá

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Jará, Jara

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Indonesia, Philippines, Paraguay

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Jara, Jårå

12 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Jára
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—2#60,073
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—1#5,312

Reference works 1

  • 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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Jára mean, and where does it come from?
a diminutive of the male given names Jaroslav or Jaromír Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Jára a male or female name?
Jára is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Jára have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 50 thousand people named Jára, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jara.
Where is Jára most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jára is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 698 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Jára?
In Argentina, the national register counted 50,138 people named Jára, about 1 in 907 residents.
How common is Jára compared with other names?
In Paraguay, Jára is the 718th most common surname of 30,328 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jára” — the 718th most common surname in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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