Juha

given name · Finnish · Latin script

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

Juha is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Chinese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Juha är en finsk form av → Johannes via → Juhani.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 107◐
  • KRSouth Korea1 in 6.2K
  • USUnited States1 in 2M

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

≈54K ●

across 6 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
144 ●

18K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 107 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

JuhaLatin · Finnish●260K records
주하Hangul · Korean●10K records
ยูฮาThai · Thai●97 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled 주하 in KR South Korea and ยูฮา in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Swedish

Juha är en finsk form av → Johannes via → Juhani. Pojkar i västra Finland gavs redan under 1800-talets senare del namnet Juha, men namnets popularitet började öka först på 1930-talet. På 1960-talet var Juha det näst populäraste pojknamnet i Finland. Under senare decennier har variantformen Juho blivit vanligare.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Juha is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland#3452,138△13K rec.1 in 10762KJuha144
KR South Korea—10,2291.8K rec.—232주하33
SE Sweden#9651,666△598 rec.1 in 6.1K1.7KJuha66
EE Estonia#703453147 rec.—16Juha14
TH Thailand—360220 rec.—#518,738ยูฮา23
ES Spain—277249 rec.—6Juha27
GB United Kingdom—199130 rec.——Juha42
US United States—1661.3K rec.1 in 2M166Juha131
NO Norway—6750 rec.—110Juha22
CA Canada—6364 rec.—1Juha20
BR Brazil—5316 rec.——Juha9
IN India—5020 rec.—5Juha8

Roughly 52K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 107). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • Finnish260K90%
  • Chinese5.9K2%
  • English5.5K2%
  • Portuguese2.7K1%
  • German2.1K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Finnish260,27690%
Chinese5,9222%
English5,4802%
Portuguese2,7331%
German2,1091%

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◐

Juha is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name11K records spelled Juha14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Norwegian

    Also written Juhã, Juḥā

  • Slovenian given name1.4K records spelled Juha11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Finland, United States, Croatia

    Languages: Slovenian, Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Jûhá, Юха, Юha

  • a separate given name1.2K records spelled Juha2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, India

    Also written Juḥā

  • Arabic given name894 records spelled Juha5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar

    Also written Jûhâ, Juhä, Juḥā

  • Russian surname755 records spelled Juha13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Finland, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Юха, Yukha, Ю-Ха, Juxa

43 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●

Juha is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swahili, a fool, an idiot (a person with poor judgement or little intelligence)

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

  • In Hungarian, third-person singular single-possession possessive of juh

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

  • In Serbo-Croatian, soup

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

  • In Serbo-Croatian, soupe

    as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

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●

05001K1.5K200020052010201520201.4K · 1999

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Juha in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
19991,354
20001,353
20011,350
20021,336
20031,339
20041,330
20051,308
20061,287
20071,277
20081,256
20091,251
20101,249
20111,241
20121,238
20131,232
20141,223
20151,218
20161,201
20171,194
20181,180
20191,169
20201,157

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Juha Mieto, b. 1949Juha Janhunen, b. 1952Juha Tiainen, b. 1955Juha Kankkunen, b. 1959Juha Sipilä, b. 1961Juha Wuolijoki, b. 1969Juha Tapio, b. 1974Juha Lind, b. 1974Mika Kallio, b. 1982Juha Pirinen, b. 1991

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 31 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Juha
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—62K#45
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—52K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.7K#1,194
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)19991.4K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20001.4K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20011.4K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20031.3K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20021.3K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20041.3K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20051.3K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20061.3K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20071.3K—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 · 108 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Juha?
We estimate roughly 54 thousand people bear Juha (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Juha have the most bearers?
We estimate about 52 thousand people bear Juha in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled juha.
Where is Juha most common?
Juha is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 107 people carrying it.
How common is Juha compared with other names?
In Finland, Juha is the 34th most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
Is Juha a male or female name?
Juha 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 Juha mean?
Recorded meaning: Juha är en finsk form av → Johannes via → Juhani.
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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, “Juha” — the 34th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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