Jalava
surname · Latin script
Meaning: elm (Ulmus)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/ˈjɑlɑʋɑ/(recorded in a dictionary) Finnish · from Wiktionary
Jalava is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Finland.
- FIFinland
- USUnited States
- SESweden
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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)elm (Ulmus)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
- FIFinland
- USUnited States
- CACanada
- SESweden
- INIndia
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Antti Jalavab. 1846FIFinnish teacher, writer and translator (1846-1909)
- Oskari Jalavab. 1876FIFinnish politician
- Ilona Jalavab. 1878FIFinnish textile designer
- Matti Jalavab. 1893FIFinnish professor
- Reijo Jalavab. 1932FIFinnish association football player (1932-2001)
- Väinö Jalavab. 1936FIFinnish mathematician
- Antti Jalavab. 1949SESwedish novelist
- Pertti Jalavab. 1960FIFinnish composer
- Marja Jalavab. 1965FIFinnish historian
- Petri Jalavab. 1976FIFinnish footballer
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)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 2.6K | #746 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 28 | #20,027 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Jalava mean, and where does it come from?
- elm (Ulmus) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Jalava?
- In Finnish /ˈjɑlɑʋɑ/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Jalava have the most bearers?
- Jalava is most frequently recorded in Finland.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jalavaThe 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
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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, “Jalava”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.