Jaku Surname
Approximately 4,427 people bear this surname
Jaku Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albania | 1,845 | 1:1,579 | 232 |
| Tanzania | 1,530 | 1:34,602 | 4,040 |
| South Africa | 382 | 1:141,826 | 16,286 |
| Greece | 125 | 1:88,638 | 14,987 |
| Nigeria | 86 | 1:2,059,800 | 71,823 |
| India | 79 | 1:9,709,688 | 189,874 |
| Indonesia | 47 | 1:2,813,813 | 160,835 |
| United States | 46 | 1:7,879,542 | 351,394 |
| Kosovo | 46 | 1:40,475 | 3,549 |
| Papua New Guinea | 32 | 1:254,804 | 34,943 |
| Lithuania | 29 | 1:104,641 | 13,555 |
| Botswana | 28 | 1:78,105 | 13,263 |
| Zimbabwe | 26 | 1:593,778 | 45,605 |
| England | 25 | 1:2,228,722 | 84,230 |
| Australia | 16 | 1:1,687,231 | 81,699 |
| Malaysia | 14 | 1:2,106,730 | 83,604 |
| Canada | 13 | 1:2,834,276 | 161,175 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Italy | 9 | 1:6,795,188 | 113,457 |
| Croatia | 7 | 1:604,086 | 40,820 |
| DR Congo | 4 | 1:18,469,892 | 182,906 |
| Poland | 4 | 1:9,502,187 | 181,606 |
| Mongolia | 4 | 1:706,322 | 11,365 |
| Brazil | 3 | 1:71,358,111 | 770,017 |
| Belarus | 2 | 1:4,750,530 | 139,516 |
| France | 1 | 1:66,422,722 | 504,397 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Bhutan | 1 | 1:616,039 | 1,715 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Serbia | 1 | 1:7,144,948 | 38,459 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 1:3,536,402 | 19,532 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 1:159,356,773 | 26,077 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| North Macedonia | 1 | 1:2,101,472 | 31,546 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
Jaku (1,419) may also be a first name.
Jaku Demographics
Average Jaku Salary in
United States
$52,963 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Jaku Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Jaku Come From? nationality or country of origin
Jaku (Bengali: জাকু, Hindi: जाकू, Marathi: जकू, Oriya: ଯାକୁ, Tibetan: བྱ་ཀུ།) is more commonly found in Albania than any other country/territory. It can also be found as:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Jaku? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 105,713th most commonly occurring surname in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,646,159 people. The last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 47 percent of Jaku live; 46 percent live in Southeastern Europe and 43 percent live in Albano-Europe. Jaku is also the 207,260th most common forename worldwide. It is borne by 1,419 people.
This surname is most commonly held in Albania, where it is carried by 1,845 people, or 1 in 1,579. In Albania Jaku is most frequent in: Lezhë County, where 42 percent reside, Shkodër County, where 34 percent reside and Tirana County, where 10 percent reside. Beside Albania this surname exists in 40 countries. It is also common in Tanzania, where 35 percent reside and South Africa, where 9 percent reside.
Jaku Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States Jaku are 0.62% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 53.85% being registered with the political party.
The amount Jaku earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 59.53% less than the national average, earning R 96,180 per year and in United States they earn 22.74% more than the national average, earning $52,963 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Jaku Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Jaku in the Bengali language | ||
| জাকু | jaku | - |
| Jaku in the Oriya language | ||
| ଯାକୁ | yaku | 42.86 |
| ଜକୁ | jaku | 28.57 |
| ଯକୁ | yaku | 14.29 |
| ଜଖୁ | jakhu | 14.29 |
| Jaku in the Hindi language | ||
| जाकू | jaku | 35.38 |
| जकू | jaku | 33.85 |
| जकु | jaku | 18.46 |
| जाकु | jaku | 12.31 |
| Jaku in the Marathi language | ||
| जकू | jaku | 32.18 |
| जकु | jaku | 26.18 |
| जाकु | jaku | 24.61 |
| जाकू | jaku | 17.03 |
| Jaku in the Tibetan language | ||
| བྱ་ཀུ། | jaku | 23.81 |
| ཇ་སྐུ་ | jaku | 19.05 |
| བྱ་སྐུ་ | jaku | 19.05 |
| བྱག་སྐུ། | jakku | 14.29 |
| བྱ་སྐུ། | jaku | 9.52 |
| རྒྱ་སྐུ། | gyaku | 4.76 |
| ཇ་སྐུ། | jaku | 4.76 |
| ཇ་ཀུ། | jaku | 4.76 |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Jaku
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