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Jerka

Female#1053 most common in Croatia220 people in Croatia
Meaning:
Sacred name
Origin:
Greek

About the name Jerka

Croatian feminine of Jerko (Jeronim), from Greek 'hieros' (sacred) and 'onoma' (name).

Popularity with newborns

Jerka has not appeared on the annual list of the most popular newborn names. That list covers the 50 most common names for each sex, so the name was given to fewer children than the 50th name of the year — not to none.

People with this name in Croatia

220 people in Croatia are called Jerka, according to the 2021 census. That is #1053 among all the names in Imenko.

Where the name is found

Jerka is recorded in 6 of Croatia's 21 counties.

Dubrovačko-neretvanskaGrad ZagrebPrimorsko-goranskaSplitsko-dalmatinskaZadarskaŠibensko-kninska

Characteristics

CroatianRare

Sources

Counts of people living in Croatia come from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics' 2021 census, which suppresses any figure below 10. Yearly birth figures come from its annual list of the most popular newborn names. Meaning, origin, name day and nicknames are curated by Imenko.