Jaka

given name · Indonesian · Latin script

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

Jaka is a given name, most frequently recorded in Indonesia. It appears chiefly in Indonesian and Hungarian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Kragen.

rarermore common
  • IDIndonesia1 in 7.8K◐
  • SISlovenia1 in 342
  • HRCroatia1 in 6.9K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈6.8K ●

across 7 countries

Sources
140 ●

3.5K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 342 ◐

Slovenia

Meaning & origin●

Kragen

Sources 1

  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jaka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia#63211,6392.5K rec.—listedJaka140
SI Slovenia—6,157△19 rec.1 in 3426.2KJaka18
HR Croatia—614—1 in 6.9K614——
IN India—363438 rec.—110Jaka12
MY Malaysia—338212 rec.——Jaka18
SG Singapore—8354 rec.——Jaka10
US United States—6153 rec.—listedJaka25
PH Philippines—6144 rec.——Jaka7
TW Taiwan—5363 rec.——Jaka4
KG Kyrgyzstan—472 rec.——Jaka2
RU Russia—293 rec.——Jaka7
ES Spain—2014 rec.1 in 2.5M97—8

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Indonesian13K34%
  • Hungarian12K33%
  • Croatian4.7K13%
  • Hindi1.9K5%
  • English1.2K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Indonesian12,53334%
Hungarian12,43033%
Croatian4,71313%
Hindi1,9215%
English1,1803%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jaka is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hungarian given name12K records spelled Jaka3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Malaysia, India, Hungary

    Also written Jáka, Jáká

  • English given name2.6K records spelled Jaka5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Slovenia, India, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ĵãkã

  • Spanish given name1.7K records spelled Jaka4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Slovenia, India, United States

    Also written J̳̿a̳̿k̳̿a̳̿, Jáká, Jàkã

  • a separate given name553 records spelled Jaka2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Slovenia, United States

    Also written Jaką

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses●

Jaka 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 trk-pro, collar; edge

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In trk-pro, rent, lease

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In csb, jacket

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Polish, kaftan (long tunic worn in the Eastern Mediterranean)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Icelandic, indefinite accusative singular of jaki

    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.

Over time●

0100200300200020102020201 · 2010

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Jaka in SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register), Slovenia, 1992–2024
Yearrecords
1992107
1993107
1994101
1995113
1996148
1997149
1998147
1999159
2000142
2001142
2002134
2003155
2004166
2005168
2006157
2007164
2008198
2009197
2010201
2011178
2012195
2013180
2014180
2015191
2016153
2017171
2018166
2019164
2020135
2021124
2022121
202380
2024102

SI SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) — 33 years between 1992–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1970198019902000Jaka Bizilj, b. 1971Jaka Adlešič, b. 1977Jaka Lakovič, b. 1978Jaka Ihbeisheh, b. 1986Jaka Klobučar, b. 1987Jaka Blažič, b. 1990Jaka Brodnik, b. 1992Jaka Hvala, b. 1993Jaka Corn, b. 1995Jaka Bijol, b. 1999

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●

Attested in 33 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Jaka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—6.2K#75
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20256.2K#43
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20246.1K#43
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20236K#44
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20225.9K#44
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20215.8K#44
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20205.6K#47
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20195.5K#50
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20185.3K#50
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20175.1K#53
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20165K#56
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20154.8K#56

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 196 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jaka?
We estimate roughly 6.8 thousand people bear Jaka (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Jaka have the most bearers?
Jaka is most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is most often spelled jaka.
Where is Jaka most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jaka is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 342 people — even though Indonesia holds more of our records for it.
How common is Jaka compared with other names?
In Indonesia, Jaka is the 632nd most common given name of 232,466 given names recorded there.
Is Jaka a male or female name?
Jaka 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 does the name Jaka mean?
Recorded meaning: Kragen
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Jaka” — the 632nd most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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