Jaque

surname · Latin script

Meaning: check

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

/xake/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Jaque is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CLChile≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 31K
  • ARArgentina1 in 31K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Chile (inferred from the name graph)

≈6,900 people, est.

Sources
81 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Chile, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

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Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jaque 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 Jaque is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CL Chile#318≈6,900 est.≈1 in 2.6K1Jaque81
AR Argentina—1,4751 in 31K1.5KJaque36
PH Philippines—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 99K—Jaque18
PE Peru—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 31K—Jaque36
BR Brazil—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 206K477Jaque63
DO Dominican Republic—≈170 est.≈1 in 61K—Jaque15
DM Dominica—11 in 74K1——

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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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)

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

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ja'Que, Jaque', Ja-Que, Jaqué

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Belgium

    Also written Jaqué

  • Danish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Swedish

    Also written Jaqué

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Philippines, Peru

    Also written Jaqué

38 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)

Jaque is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Le mot jaque, qui nous a surtout donné le diminutif jaquette, désignait au Moyen Âge un justaucorps à manches porté par les hommes. Il vient sans doute de Jacques, prénom qui était le sobriquet du paysan français. Voir Jacquerie et Jaquette .

    as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)

  • In fro, a gambison; a type of tight-fitting shirt

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, jack (naval ensign)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, jackfruit

    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)

188019001920194019601980Juvenal Hernández Jaque, b. 1899Rhené Jaque, b. 1918Louis Jaque, b. 1919Duberildo Jaque, b. 1921Celso Jaque, b. 1960Andrés Jaque, b. 1971Pablo Méndez, b. 1975

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)

FormalEstimado/a Jaque,Dear Jaque, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Jaque,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 26 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Jaque
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.5K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—339#23,889
DM DominicaDominica — Revised List of Electors May 202520251#226

Reference works 2

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)

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 Jaque mean, and where does it come from?
check Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Jaque?
A machine transcription gives /xake/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Jaque have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.9 thousand people named Jaque in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jaque.
How common is the name Jaque?
In Argentina, the national register counted 1,475 people named Jaque, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
How common is Jaque compared with other names?
In Chile, Jaque is the 318th most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Jaque” — the 318th most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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