Jarma
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jarma is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 150K(measured from records)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 139K
- FIFinland1 in 186K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 139K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Järma in EE Estonia.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jarma 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Jarma | 9 |
| AR Argentina | 303 | 1 in 150K | 303 | Jarma | 35 |
| US United States | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | 102 | Jarma | 16 |
| CO Colombia | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 588K | — | Jarma | 21 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 4 |
| CZ Czechia | 21 | 1 in 510K | 21 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 351K | listed | Järma | 2 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Jarma 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 Slovak, genitive singular of jarmo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Faroese, to bleat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dlm, weapon
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 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 303 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 102 | #148,244 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #35,818 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 21 | #52,622 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 21 | #15,166 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
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
- In which country does Jarma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Jarma in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jarma.
- How common is the name Jarma?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 303 people named Jarma, about 1 in 150 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jarma?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jarmaThe 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, “Jarma”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.