Jeska
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the personal name Jan (see John)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʄɛska/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jeska is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 5.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- KEKenya≈1 in 78K
- NLNetherlands1 in 283K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a pet form of the personal name Jan (see John).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jeska 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Jeska | 10 |
| KE Kenya | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Jeska | 6 |
| US United States | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | 331 | Jeska | 125 |
| PH Philippines | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Jeska | 20 |
| NL Netherlands | 61 | 1 in 283K | 61 | Jeska | 9 |
| AU Australia | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 862K | 1 | Jeska | 27 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Jeska | 7 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jeska Verstegenb. 1972NLDutch writer (born 1972)
- Jeska Danielsenb. 1988DEGerman association football player
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 331 | #60,790 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 321 | #58,999 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 311 | #68,212 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Jeska mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the personal name Jan (see John). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Jeska a male or female name?
- Jeska 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.
- How do you pronounce Jeska?
- A machine transcription gives /ʄɛska/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Jeska have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Jeska in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jeska.
- How common is the name Jeska?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 61 people named Jeska, about 1 in 283 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jeska?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jeskaThe 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, “Jeska”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.