Junta
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The ruling council of a military dictatorship
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Junta is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 102M(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 102M (inferred from the name graph)
≈3 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United States, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The ruling council of a military dictatorship.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Junta is read(measured from records)
Junta is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English30%
The ruling council of a military dictatorship.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish8.3%
feminine singular of junto
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Junta 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 | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 102M | 149 | Junta | 88 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Junta | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | 254 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| IN India | — | — | 1 | — | 5 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
Junta is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, council, commission
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In Indonesian, junta (a council, convention, tribunal or assembly; the ruling council of a military dictatorship)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, a junta (usually of military dictatorships, like in English)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, a surname, equivalent to English Giunta — famously held by
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Junta Sugiyamab. 1939JPJapanese microbiologist and mycologist
- Junta Aikawab. 1960JPJapanese businessman
- Junta Morib. 1965JPJapanese record producer, composer and lyricist
- Junta Nakamab. 1987JPJapanese actor
- Junta Yamaguchib. 1987JPJapanese film director
- Junta Terashimab. 1988JPJapanese voice actor
- Junta Ikedab. 1991AUAustralian chess player
- Junta UchidaJPJapanese mangaka
- Junta MioJPJapanese mangaka
- Junta KishimotoJPJapanese broadcast writer
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 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1990 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1987 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1986 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1985 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1984 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1981 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1980 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1972 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1969 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1968 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1967 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1963 | 1 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Junta mean, and where does it come from?
- The ruling council of a military dictatorship. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Junta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3 people named Junta in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled junta.
- How common is the name Junta?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3 people in the United States have Junta as their first given name, about 1 in 102 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/juntaThe 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, “Junta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.