Jl
org · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jl is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 257K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 428K
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 44K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled J-L in BE Belgium, PH Philippines.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
元 时 蒙古 人 姓 , 见 《 南 村 辍 耕 录 》(13,57) 。 WH ae JL FO RG i ILS AA IC IL (508). JOS IU Sth Je ia AB 3C, HH IU IL 台 后 裔 组 成 (397) 。《 元 史 》 作 无 鲁 死 台 , 其 先 刺 真 八 都 (一 作 琳 沁 巴 丹 ) ,以 材 武 雄 诸 部 , 生 五 FICS ICS IC. FLL A ESI 思 。 元 太 祖 即位 , 因 其 功 , 遂 命 五 子 子孙 各 用 五 FZ2BAK(S7) o (BH) Ome K ISB KR. BIS RCS IC tak (397). Qk M7 B) I Ee IL SK (510) , (Sei + 氏族 略 》 作 乌 楞 乌 氏 (24) 。
Sources 2
- Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jl 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 257K | 6 | Jl | 214 |
| PH Philippines | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | J-L | 37 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Jl | 9 |
| CA Canada | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 236K | — | Jl | 45 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 428K | — | Jl | 63 |
| SG Singapore | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Jl | 22 |
| BE Belgium | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 207K | — | J-L | 10 |
| NL Netherlands | 51 | 1 in 339K | 32 | Jl | 21 |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Jl is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Somali, abbreviation of Jubaland
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Abbreviation of July.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In och, To record, remember
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
In och, stool
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
In wuu, Rush
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In Latvian, Partija "Jaunais laiks"
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 32 | #8,772 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 19 | #15,207 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1985 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1962 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1922 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 5 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Jl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Jl in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jl.
- How common is the name Jl?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 51 people named Jl, about 1 in 339 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jl?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jlThe 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, “Jl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.