Jaffa
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jaffa is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Syria. Recorded meaning: Bella.
- SYSyria
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Bella
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jaffa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | — | — | Jaffa | 4 |
| US United States | — | 351 | — | 21 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 13 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 10 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 10 | — | — |
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 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Jaffa 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 Czech, Jaffa (a port city in western Israel)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A port in western Israel.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, luka na obali Sredozemnog mora, od 1950. dio gradskog područja Tel-Aviva (Izrael); u biblijsko doba Joppa
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Max Jaffab. 1911GBBritish musician
- Harry V. Jaffab. 1918USAmerican historian and political philosopher (1918–2015)
- Rick Jaffab. 1956USAmerican screenwriter and film producer
- Daniella Diaz de Jaffab. 2002DKDanish association football player
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 24 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 351 | #61,734 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 305 | #65,066 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 245 | #73,659 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #70,214 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Jaffa mean, and where does it come from?
- Bella Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- In which country does Jaffa have the most bearers?
- Jaffa is most frequently recorded in Syria, where it is most often spelled jaffa.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jaffaThe 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, “Jaffa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.