Juma

given name · English · Latin script

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

Juma is a given name, most frequently recorded in Tanzania, where it is the 3rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Swahili: male born on Friday; also 'week'.

rarermore common
  • TZTanzania1 in 18◐
  • OMOman1 in 603
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 4.5K

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

≈1.3K ●

across 8 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
107 ●

40K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 53K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

JumaLatin · English●727K records
ДжумаCyrillic · Russian●5.7K records
주마Hangul · Korean●6 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Джума in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan, Yuma in US United States, GB United Kingdom, Dzhuma in UA Ukraine and Jum'A in LY Libya.

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●

Swahili: male born on Friday; also 'week'.

Sources 1

  • African Names

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Juma is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TZ Tanzania#3728,9937.5K rec.—45Juma41
RU Russia—5,3484.5K rec.—#1,024Джума92
OM Oman#271,7392.2K rec.——Juma46
AE United Arab Emirates#2231,6682.5K rec.——Juma101
SY Syria—1,3052K rec.—1Juma12
AF Afghanistan#1099141.1K rec.——Juma8
KE Kenya—755445 rec.——Juma37
TR Türkiye—7451.2K rec.——Juma11
TM Turkmenistan—632782 rec.——Juma5
GB United Kingdom—622742 rec.—listedYuma50
IN India—597292 rec.—28Juma15
UA Ukraine—5762.2K rec.——Dzhuma13

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

Languages●

  • English727K81%
  • Swahili106K12%
  • Hindi11K1%
  • Arabic8.7K1%
  • Portuguese7.4K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English727,29481%
Swahili106,37712%
Hindi10,9631%
Arabic8,6501%
Portuguese7,3841%

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◐

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

  • Swahili given name370K records spelled Juma3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tanzania, Kenya, India, United States

    Also written Jumà, Jum'A

  • Hindi given name21K records spelled Juma4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Tanzania, Pakistan, Afghanistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Jümã, Jùmà

  • a separate given name8.1K records spelled Juma2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Tanzania

    Also written Ju̇mă

  • Indonesian given name7.7K records spelled Juma6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tanzania, Indonesia, India, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Juma', Jum'A

64 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●

Juma 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 Swahili, week

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

  • In Swahili, born on Friday

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • In Arabic, Friday; used for a child born on Friday

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • In Swahili, Friday; from Arabic jum‘a (Friday).

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • In Swahili, Swahili: Friday-born

    as a nameAfrican Names

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●

02040601950200041 · 2012

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Juma in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1902–2024
Yearrecords
19021
19081
19091
19101
19132
19162
19171
19182
19192
19205
19212
19223
19231
19242
19251
19263
19273
19282
19295
19303
19315
19324
19336
19349
19351
19366
19372
19387
19391
19408
19416
19427
19435
19441
19457
19464
19473
19486
19499
19509
19514
19529
19535
19549
19551
195612
195712
19587
195911
19606
196114
196214
196316
196412
196516
196617
19678
196812
196916
197010
197112
197213
197324
197411
197520
197624
197722
197817
197927
198024
198121
198219
198327
198428
198527
198622
198725
198823
198924
199028
199127
199231
199329
199425
199537
199620
199719
199828
199923
200026
200129
200221
200335
200422
200538
200625
200723
200828
200936
201023
201125
201241
201331
201420
201523
201618
201711
201826
201928
202018
202119
202217
202314
202410

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 114 years between 1902–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Juma Sultan, b. 1942Juma Mwapachu, b. 1942Giuma Ahmed Atigha, b. 1950Juma Azbarga, b. 1956Juma Ikangaa, b. 1957Juma Al-Holi, b. 1972Juma Muwowo, b. 1980Juma Kaseja, b. 1985Juma Clarence, b. 1989Ibrahim Juma, b. 1993

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 74 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Juma
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.5K#18,527
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010840#28,408
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—503#14,253
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022498—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020481#19,044
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—440#13,419
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000416#47,838
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—191#5,415
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—110#14,184
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—101#27,384
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—101#27,237
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—86#8,590

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 425 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Juma?
We estimate roughly 1.3 thousand people bear Juma (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Juma have the most bearers?
Juma is most frequently recorded in Tanzania, where it is most often spelled juma.
How common is Juma compared with other names?
In Tanzania, Juma is the 3rd most common given name of 40,746 given names recorded there.
Is Juma a male or female name?
Juma 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 Juma mean?
Recorded meaning: Swahili: male born on Friday; also 'week'.
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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, “Juma” — the 3rd most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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