Jokela
surname · Latin script
Meaning: fromjoki ‘river’ + the local suffix -la, originally a habitational name from any of various farmsteads named for their riverside location
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈdʒɑkɪɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jokela is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- FIFinland
- USUnited States
- SESweden
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
fromjoki ‘river’ + the local suffix -la, originally a habitational name from any of various farmsteads named for their riverside location. During the name conversion movement from Swedish in the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was adopted as a replacement by Finns with Swedish surnames, especially those containing Swedish strom ‘river’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Jokela is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, a Finnish surname from landscape
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)
- Leo Jokelab. 1927FIFinnish actor and comedian (1927–1975)
- Mikko Jokelab. 1928FIFinnish politician
- Olli Pekka Jokelab. 1955FIFinnish architect
- Monica Vikström-Jokelab. 1960FIFinnish writer
- Rike Jokelab. 1964FIFinnish cinematographer, television director, screenwriter and producer
- Jaana Häkkinenb. 1965FInot in their usual nameFinnish female curler and coach
- Juha Jokelab. 1970FIFinnish playwright and scriptwriter
- Mikko Jokelab. 1980FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Antti Jokelab. 1981FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Paul Reyb. 1992SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 11K | #141 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 4.6K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 381 | #54,178 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 371 | #52,500 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 347 | #62,349 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 256 | #3,405 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 24 | #39,080 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 8 | #12,496 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 8 | #12,979 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #67,793 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Jokela mean, and where does it come from?
- fromjoki ‘river’ + the local suffix -la, originally a habitational name from any of various farmsteads named for their riverside location. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Jokela?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒɑkɪɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Jokela?
- In the etymology graph, Jokinen is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Jokela have the most bearers?
- Jokela is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jokelaThe 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, “Jokela”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.