Jaz
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Dated spelling of jazz (“musical style”)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒɑz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jaz is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 63K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 104K
- USUnited States1 in 358K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Dated spelling of jazz (“musical style”).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Jaz is read(measured from records)
Jaz is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English51%
Dated spelling of jazz (“musical style”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish33%
second-person singular imperative of jacer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jaz 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 969K | — | Jaz | 4 |
| US United States | 930 | 1 in 358K | 608 | Jaz | 247 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 104K | listed | Jaz | 149 |
| PH Philippines | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Jaz | 46 |
| AU Australia | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 63K | 2 | Jaz | 96 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Jaz | 23 |
| SG Singapore | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Jaz | 26 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Jaz | 7 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Jaz | 41 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the penguin-baby-names-2009 register; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Jaz 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.
ISO 639-3 language code for Jawe.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, weir (type of dam)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, abyss
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlw-osk, weir
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)
- Jaz O'Harab. 1990GBBritish human rights activist
- Jaz Sinclairb. 1994USAmerican actress
- Jaz Hedgelandb. 1995AUAustralian triathlete
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)
Attested in 26 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 608 | #13,117 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 322 | #13,117 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 10 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Jaz mean, and where does it come from?
- Dated spelling of jazz (“musical style”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Jaz?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒɑz/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Jaz a male or female name?
- Jaz is a female 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 Jaz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Jaz in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jaz.
- How common is the name Jaz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 930 people named Jaz in 2020, about 1 in 358 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jaz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jazThe 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, “Jaz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.