Jakas

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jakas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Kilmė ne visai aiški ta prasme, kad pavardė Jakas genetiškai gali būti susijusi ir su krikšto vardu Jacobus (liet.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 67K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 87K
  • NONorway1 in 391K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Finland (measured from records)

64 people

Sources
17 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 67K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Lithuanian

Kilmė ne visai aiški ta prasme, kad pavardė Jakas genetiškai gali būti susijusi ir su krikšto vardu Jacobus (liet. Jokūbas), ir su Joachim (liet. Jakimas ar pan.). Kaip matyti iš literatūros, slavų kalbose J ak- dažniau siejamas su Jacob (žr. C. Илчев, 1969, c. 569; S. Rospond, 1973, p. 176; J. Gebauer, 1970, p. 591; J. Dumčius, 1958 a, p. 118)

Sources 1

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jakas 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 Jakas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland641 in 87K64——
HR Croatia631 in 67K63Jakas17
AR Argentina441 in 1M44——
NO Norway141 in 391K14——
ES Spain91 in 5.6M9——
SE Sweden81 in 1.3M8——

64 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Jakas is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Jakaś

26 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)

Jakas 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 Swedish, passive infinitive of jaka

    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 18 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Jakas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—64#18,299
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202163#11,291
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202159—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—44—
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—28—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—14#50,134
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—9#126,713
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—8#45,251

Reference works 4

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 Jakas mean?
Recorded meaning: Kilmė ne visai aiški ta prasme, kad pavardė Jakas genetiškai gali būti susijusi ir su krikšto vardu Jacobus (liet.
In which country does Jakas have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 64 people named Jakas, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Jakas most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jakas is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 67 thousand people — even though Finland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Jakas?
In Finland, the national register counted 64 people named Jakas, about 1 in 87 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, “Jakas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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