Jeschke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: German (of Polish origin) and Polish; Slavic-German hybrid, from Jasiek, a pet form of the personal name Jan (see Johannes)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdʒɛʃk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jeschke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 347K
- ATAustria≈1 in 99K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 124 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
German (of Polish origin) and Polish; Slavic-German hybrid, from Jasiek, a pet form of the personal name Jan (see Johannes).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jeschke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | Jeschke | 124 |
| US United States | 958 | 1 in 347K | 958 | Jeschke | 123 |
| PL Poland | 277 | 1 in 138K | 139 | Jeschke | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 212K | — | Jeschke | 20 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 443K | — | Jeschke | 11 |
| AT Austria | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Jeschke | 26 |
| HN Honduras | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 278K | — | Jeschke | 1 |
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: the dfa-band-3 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Jeschke 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 German, Slawisches Patronym mit Suffix -ke; die Varianten auf -ske erweitern die Verbreitung nach Norden/Nordwesten. 2337 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Diminutiv/Hypokoristikum auf -schke; Grundform der im Atlas gezeigten -schk/-schke-Varianten. Bearer-Count: 2337.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Diminutiv/Hypokoristikum auf -schke; zu Rufnamen wie Johannes/Jakob/Jaroslav. Bearer count: 2337.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Patronymisches -ke aus slawischer Herkunft; diminutive/abgeleitete Familiennamensformen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)
- Cuno Jeschkeb. 1833PLGerman politician and merchant (1833-1893)
- Peter Jeschkeb. 1895DEGerman politician and lawyer (1895-1979)
- Hans Jeschkeb. 1903DEGerman university teacher (1903-1987)
- Wolfgang Jeschkeb. 1936DEGerman writer, editor (1936–2015)
- Andreas Jeschkeb. 1966DEGerman footballer
- Sabina Jeschkeb. 1968DEGerman mechanical engineer
- Norman Jeschkeb. 1979DEGerman pair skater
- Marta Jeschkeb. 1986PLPolish sprinter
- Henning Jeschkeb. 2000SEGerman activist
- Dieter JeschkeDEGerman theologian
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 958 | #25,725 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 910 | #25,503 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 881 | #28,736 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 139 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 139 | #22,420 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 138 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 138 | #23,029 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 3 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Jeschke mean, and where does it come from?
- German (of Polish origin) and Polish; Slavic-German hybrid, from Jasiek, a pet form of the personal name Jan (see Johannes). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Jeschke?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒɛʃk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jeschke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.9 thousand people named Jeschke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jeschke.
- How common is the name Jeschke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 958 people named Jeschke in 2010, about 1 in 347 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jeschkeThe 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, “Jeschke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.