Ĵa

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ĵa is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 105K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 131K
  • USUnited States1 in 178K

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.

United States (measured from records)

1,870 people, 2020

Record sources
124 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 105K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ja in US United States, NL Netherlands and J-A in CA Canada.

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)
recorded in Croatian

zamjenica za 1. lice sing. za osobu koja za sebe kaže da govori ili radi

Cited for this meaning 4

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Ĵa 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.

Where Ĵa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,8701 in 178K1KJa35
NL Netherlands1651 in 105K87Ja5
CA Canada≈120 est.≈1 in 305K1J-A12
BR Brazil821 in 2.6M163——
SE Sweden781 in 131K78—1
GY Guyana11 in 750K1——

1,870 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Ĵa is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Japanese given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, United States, Spain

    Also written Ja, Ĵä, Jä, Jå, Jã

  • Bangla given name28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Bangla, Hindi, Urdu

    Also written জয়া, Joya, Ja, Jya, জুয়া

  • Hindi given name119 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, United States, Vietnam

    Languages: Hindi, Sinhala, Indonesian

    Also written Ya, Yu, Yi, Ja, Ya'

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ĵa under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Ĵa a male or female name?
Ĵa 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.
In which country does Ĵa have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Ĵa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ja.
Where is Ĵa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ĵa is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 105 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ĵa?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,870 people named Ĵa in 2020, about 1 in 178 thousand residents.

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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, “Ĵa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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