Jesca
given name · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jesca is a given name, most frequently recorded in Kenya. In Uganda it is the 81st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script.
- TZTanzania1 in 2K◐
- KEKenya1 in 2.5K
- UGUganda1 in 1.8K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈260 ●
- Sources
- 47 ●
- 1 in 125K ◐
across 6 countries
6.0K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #313 | 11,428 | 1K rec. | — | — | Jesca | 19 |
| TZ Tanzania | #129 | 6,621 | 4.1K rec. | — | 3 | Jesca | 34 |
| UG Uganda | #81 | 291 | 52 rec. | — | 2 | Jesca | 29 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 138△ | 11 rec. | 1 in 125K | 138 | — | 4 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 117 | 117 rec. | — | — | Jesca | 10 |
| US United States | — | 114 | 117 rec. | — | — | Jesca | 47 |
| ZM Zambia | — | 104 | 1 rec. | — | — | Jesca | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 95 | — | 1 in 2.2M | 234 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 83 | 18 rec. | — | — | Jesca | 24 |
| PH Philippines | — | 80 | 48 rec. | — | — | Jesca | 8 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | — | 19 | 15 rec. | — | — | Jesca | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 15 | 466 rec. | 1 in 680K | 15 | Jesca | 4 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili19K78%
- English1.7K7%
- Portuguese1.6K7%
- Spanish3191%
- Western Frisian2561%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 19,029 | 78% |
| English | 1,735 | 7% |
| Portuguese | 1,629 | 7% |
| Spanish | 319 | 1% |
| Western Frisian | 256 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Ababiku Jescab. 1975UGUgandan politician
- Jesca Jonathani Msambatavangub. 1975TZTanzanian politician
- Jesca MagufuliTZThe child of Tanzania's former fifth-term President, John Pombe Magufuli.
- Jesca Ruth AtaaUGhuman rights activist in Uganda
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 20 sources across 14 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 · 32 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jesca?
- We estimate roughly 260 people bear Jesca (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jesca have the most bearers?
- Jesca is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled jesca.
- How common is Jesca compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Jesca is the 313th most common given name of 51,773 given names recorded there.
- Is Jesca a male or female name?
- Jesca is a female 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data
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, “Jesca” — the 313th most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.