Juma
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Swahili: male born on Friday; also 'week'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʄuma/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Juma is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country, where it is the 22nd most common surname.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 95(inferred from the name graph)
- BHBahrain≈1 in 1.7K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 2.7K
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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 95 (inferred from the name graph)
≈610,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Swahili: male born on Friday; also 'week'.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Juma 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 | #22 | ≈610,000 est. | ≈1 in 95 | 45 | Juma | 38 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 296 | — | Juma | 39 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Juma | 5 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #111 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Juma | 109 |
| OM Oman | #112 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Juma | 50 |
| BH Bahrain | #20 | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Juma | 49 |
| US United States | — | 840 | 1 in 396K | 1.5K | Juma | 135 |
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: INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Juma 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 Swahili, week
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, born on Friday
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, Friday; used for a child born on Friday
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Swahili, Friday; from Arabic jum‘a (Friday).
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Swahili, Swahili: Friday-born
as a nameAfrican Names
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)
- Shaʻrāwī Jumʻahb. 1920EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian officer and politician
- Hasan Fahmi Juma'ahb. 1937IQformer Iraqi minister
- Omar Ali Jumab. 1941TZTanzania politician (1941–2001)
- Richard Jumab. 1945KEKenyan long-distance runner
- Husayn Ali Jum'ahb. 1949SYnot in their usual nameSyrian literary scholar and poet
- Monica Jumab. 1954KEKenyan diplomat
- Juma Ali Jumab. 1972TZTanzanian politician
- Wycliffe Jumab. 1980KEKenyan football player
- Ismail gomaab. 1991TZnot in their usual nameTanzanian athletics competitor
- Rio Evans Jumaactor
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 77 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,527 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 840 | #28,408 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 416 | #47,838 |
Reference works 8
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Juma mean, and where does it come from?
- Swahili: male born on Friday; also 'week'. Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Juma?
- A machine transcription gives /ʄuma/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Juma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 614 thousand people named Juma in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled juma.
- How common is the name Juma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 840 people named Juma in 2010, about 1 in 396 thousand residents.
- How common is Juma compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Juma is the 22nd most common surname of 112,969 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Juma?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jumaThe 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, “Juma” — the 22nd most common surname in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.