Jäggi
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Jäggi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Two main origins: * Borrowed from Swiss German Jäggi. * Borrowed from Punjabi.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 171K
- NLNetherlands1 in 393K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jäggi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 186 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
3,108 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Jaggi in US United States, CH Switzerland, IN India and 3 more and Jaeggi in AT Austria.
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)Two main origins: * Borrowed from Swiss German Jäggi. * Borrowed from Punjabi.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jäggi 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #123 | 3,108 | 1 in 2.7K | 3.1K | Jaggi | 61 |
| IN India | — | 1,996 | 1 in 664K | 2K | Jaggi | 74 |
| US United States | — | 605 | 1 in 550K | 722 | Jaggi | 186 |
| AR Argentina | — | 154as Jaeggi | 1 in 295K | 154 | — | — |
| DE Germany | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Jaggi | 37 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 44 | 1 in 393K | 44 | Jaggi | 9 |
| NO Norway | — | 32 | 1 in 171K | 32 | Jaggi | 5 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 420K | — | Jaeggi | 9 |
3,108 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024, counting the spelling jäggi. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jakob Jäggib. 1829CHbotanist (1829-1894)
- Bernhard Jäggib. 1869CHSwiss politician (1869-1944)
- Willy Jäggib. 1906CHSwiss footballer (1906-1968)
- Beat Jäggib. 1915CHSwiss journalist and author (1915-1989)
- Louis Jäggib. 1948CHSwiss cross-country skier
- Ueli Jäggib. 1954CHSwiss actor
- Anita Jäggib. 1963CHSwiss female curler and coach
- Carola Jäggib. 1963CHSwiss art historian and archaeologist
- Sara Jäggib. 1975Swiss soprano
- Michèle Jäggib. 1987CHSwiss curler
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3.1K | #247 |
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 Jäggi mean, and where does it come from?
- Two main origins: * Borrowed from Swiss German Jäggi. * Borrowed from Punjabi. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Jäggi have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Jäggi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jaggi.
- Where is Jäggi most common?
- Jäggi is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jäggi?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 3,108 people named Jäggi in 2024, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Jäggi compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Jäggi is the 123rd most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jäggi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%A4ggiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Jäggi” — the 123rd most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.