Jaki
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Initialism of Janus kinase inhibitor
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jaki is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 60th most common surname.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 1.2Kas Zaki(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 2.1Kas Zaki
- MAMorocco≈1 in 2.6Kas Zaki
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 Jaki 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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 257 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.4M (inferred from the name graph)
≈86,000 named Zaki, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Zaki in EG Egypt, MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia and 5 more.
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)
Initialism of Janus kinase inhibitor.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jaki 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #60 | ≈86,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Zaki | 161 |
| ID Indonesia | #581 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | — | Zaki | 148 |
| DZ Algeria | #19 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | listed | Zaki | 57 |
| AF Afghanistan | #288 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Zaki | 18 |
| PK Pakistan | #717 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 1 | Zaki | 59 |
| MA Morocco | #45 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | listed | Zaki | 79 |
| MY Malaysia | #146 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Zaki | 86 |
| AR Argentina | — | 19 | 1 in 2.4M | 19 | Zaki | 20 |
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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Jaki is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, introduces a question about a trait; what, what... like
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, a floating piece of ice; floe, iceberg
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, nominative/vocative plural of jaks
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, broken ice, icefloe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Javanese, unmarried young man
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)
- Jaki Byardb. 1922USAmerican musician (1922-1999)
- Jaki Liebezeitb. 1938DEGerman musician (1938-2017)
- Jaki Shelton Greenb. 1953USAmerican poet
- Jaki Irvineb. 1966IEIrish artist and filmmaker (born 1966)
- Jaki Jurgecb. 1972SISlovenian opera singer
- Jaki Numazawab. 1977JPJapanese professional wrestler
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 36 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 19 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Jaki mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of Janus kinase inhibitor. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Jaki?
- In the etymology graph, Jackie, Mina and Jaqueline are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Jacqueline and Jaclyn.
- Is Jaki a male or female name?
- Jaki 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 Jaki have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 86 thousand people named Zaki in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Jaki most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jaki is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 2.4 million people — even though Egypt holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jaki?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 19 people named Jaki, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
- How common is Jaki compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Jaki is the 60th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jakiThe 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, “Jaki” — the 60th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.