Jahja

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

/d͡ʒˈahd͡ʒa/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated · uncertain

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Jahja is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country: 98 people, counted by BFS in 2024.

  • CHSwitzerland1 in 86K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 96K
  • SESweden1 in 300K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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)

98 people, 2024

Record sources
58 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 86K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Jahja

  • Indonesian:/d͡ʒˈahd͡ʒa/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Jahja is found

(measured from records)

Jahja 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.

Where Jahja is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CH Switzerland981 in 86K98Jahja8
SE Sweden341 in 300K34—1
BE Belgium271 in 434K27Jahja3
SI Slovenia221 in 96K22——
HR Croatia101 in 423K10——

98 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Jahja is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Albanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, Kosovo, United Kingdom

    Also written Jąhjã

  • Bulgarian given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Türkiye, Croatia, Syria

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Yahya, Яхя, Јахја, Yàhyà, Ỹặhỹấ

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Jaḥjā

  • Arabic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Jahjā, Jaḥjà, Jaḥjā

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Jahja is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Islāma mitoloģijā - pravietis, atbilst Bībeles Jānim Kristītājam

    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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1960197019801990Yahya Sinwar, b. 1962Yahya Jammeh, b. 1965Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, b. 1986
  • Yahya Sinwarb. 1962PSnot in their usual namePalestinian politician and Hamas leader (1962–2024)
  • Yahya Jammehb. 1965GMnot in their usual name2nd President of the Gambia
  • Yahya Abdul-Mateen IIb. 1986USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor

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)
FormalYth. Bapak Jahja,Dear Bapak Jahja, (English)
InformalHalo Jahja,Hi Jahja, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Jahja?
In Indonesian /d͡ʒˈahd͡ʒa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Jahja?
In Switzerland, the national register counted about 98 people named Jahja, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jahja. After it come Sweden, Belgium, Slovenia and Croatia; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Jahja most common?
Jahja is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 86 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Jahja?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 98 people named Jahja in 2024, about 1 in 86 thousand residents.

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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, “Jahja” — ranked 11259th in Switzerland (BFS, 2024). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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