Jáin
surname · Latin script
Jáin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 364,221 people, counted by Instate, which ranks it 65th. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Sanskrit जैन (jaina). Jáin is also written জৈন in Bengali, Джейн in Cyrillic and ਜੈਨ in Gurmukhi.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 3.6K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jáin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- #439 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 431 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
364,221 people
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Jáin in other scripts: Bengali, Cyrillic, Gurmukhi and 2 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Jain in US United States, IN India, ID Indonesia and 1 more and Jane in ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Sanskrit जैन (jaina).
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Jáin is found
(measured from records)Jáin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #81 | 364,221 | 1 in 3.6K | 364K | Jain | 350 |
| US United States | — | 33,543as John | 1 in 9.9K | 3.1M | Jain | 431 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Jain | 74 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Jain | 41 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,448as Sun | 1 in 15K | 23K | Jane | 42 |
| GY Guyana | — | 3,218as John | 1 in 233 | 3.2K | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 2,180as John | 1 in 47 | 2.2K | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 2,126as Jenny | 1 in 4K | 2.1K | — | 31 |
364,221 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jáin mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Sanskrit जैन (jaina). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Jáin?
- In India, the national register counted about 364 thousand people named Jáin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jain. After it come United States, Indonesia, Malaysia and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Jáin?
- In India, the national register counted 364,221 people named Jáin, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Jáin compared with other names?
- In India, Jáin is the 81st most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%A1inThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Jáin” — ranked 65th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.