Joto
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Joto is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country. Recorded meaning: heat, warmth.
- KEKenya≈1 in 195K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 705K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 1.3M
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 Joto 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.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 195K (inferred from the name graph)
≈280 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
heat, warmth
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Joto 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 195K | — | Joto | 5 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Joto | 26 |
| GE Georgia | 86as ჯოტო | 1 in 46K | 86 | Joto | 7 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Joto | 8 |
| US United States | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 32M | — | Joto | 19 |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 705K | listed | — | 2 |
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: Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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)
Joto is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, vocative singular of jota
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, gay (male homosexual)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, iota
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #18,183 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 4 | #20,666 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Joto mean, and where does it come from?
- heat, warmth Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Joto a male or female name?
- Joto is a male 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 Joto have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 275 people named Joto in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joto.
- How common is the name Joto?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4 people named Joto in 2026, about 1 in 9.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Joto?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jotoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Joto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.