جو
surname · Arabic script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
جو is a surname written in the Arabic script, most frequently recorded in Egypt. In Persian, recorded as barley.
- EGEgypt
- IRIran
- SDSudan
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 20 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
air (the apparently open space above the ground)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How جو is read(measured from records)
جو is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Persian89%
barley
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic11%
air (the apparently open space above the ground)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
جو counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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.
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)
جو is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tft, Jawi spelling of joo, shortened form of جوو (joou).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Sindhi, of; genitive case marker
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Urdu, the relative pronoun:
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)
- Ju Jeung-ryub. 1926KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (1926-1980)
- Joo Hyunb. 1941KRnot in their usual nameactor
- Joo Jin-mob. 1958KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor (born 1958)
- Joo Jin-mob. 1974KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor born 1974
- Joo Sang-wookb. 1978KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Ju Ji-hoonb. 1982KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Joo Woo-jaeb. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean model, Actor
- Joo Min-kyungb. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Ju Se-jongb. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player
- Joo Hae-eunb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name جو come from?
- air (the apparently open space above the ground) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name جو mean?
- In Persian, barley
- In which country does جو have the most bearers?
- جو is most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is most often spelled جو.
- How common is جو compared with other names?
- In Egypt, جو is the 933rd most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D8%AC%D9%88The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “جو” — the 933rd most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.