Joker
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Joker is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A person who makes jokes.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 57K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 98K
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 173K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A person who makes jokes.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Joker 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Joker | 3 |
| CN China | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 505K | — | Joker | 9 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Joker | 19 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Joker | 10 |
| US United States | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | listed | Joker | 68 |
| KE Kenya | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 520K | — | Joker | 5 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 173K | — | Joker | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 8 | 1 in 1.3M | 8 | — | 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Joker is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, alternative spelling of dżoker
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, alternative form of jóquer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, joker (playing card)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, JÓKER, jokeri, s. m. Carte de joc cu cea mai mare valoare în unele jocuri de noroc, care poate înlocui orice carte în jocul respectiv. [Scris și: jocher - Pr.: giócăr].
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
In Croatian, v. džoker
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Joker mean, and where does it come from?
- A person who makes jokes. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Joker a male or female name?
- Joker is a male 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.
- What are other forms of the name Joker?
- In the etymology graph, Joke is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Joker have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Joker in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joker.
- How common is the name Joker?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 8 people named Joker, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Joker?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jokerThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Joker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.