Jamšek
surname · Latin script
Jamšek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 3.8K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia≈1 in 230K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M
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 Jamšek itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
552 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jamsek in RS Serbia, US United States.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jamšek 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | 552 | 1 in 3.8K | 552 | Jamšek | 9 |
| HR Croatia | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 230K | — | Jamšek | 5 |
| RS Serbia | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 649K | — | Jamsek | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | — | Jamsek | 6 |
552 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Marija Jamšekb. 1950SIresearcher
- Janez Jamšekb. 1972SIresearcher
- Zvonimir JamšekSIresearcher
- Magda JamšekSIresearcher
- Zdeslav JamšekSISlovenian researcher
- Andreja Rahne-JamšekSIresearcher
- Jan JamšekSIresearcher
- Jana JamšekSIresearcher
- Vlasta Vodopivec JamšekSIresearcher
- Jure JamšekSIresearcher
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 3 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 552 | #504 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- In which country does Jamšek have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 552 people named Jamšek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jamšek.
- Where is Jamšek most common?
- Jamšek is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jamšek?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 552 people named Jamšek, about 1 in 3.8 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jamšek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jam%C5%A1ekThe 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, “Jamšek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.