Jawaharlal
given name · Latin script
Meaning: pers. name, north India (Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Jawaharlal is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Jawaharlal is also written জওহরলাল in Bengali.
- INIndia≈1 in 110K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 375K
- USUnited States≈1 in 6.3Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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 (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 113K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Jawaharlal in other scripts: Bengali
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)pers. name, north India
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jawaharlal 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 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 113K | 10 | Jawaharlal | 70 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Jawaharlal | 3 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Jawaharlal | 3 |
| US United States | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 6.3M | listed | Jawaharlal | 52 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Jawaharlal | 6 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Jawaharlal | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Jawaharlal | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | 1 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jawaharlal Nehrub. 1889INPrime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jawaharlal mean, and where does it come from?
- pers. name, north India Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- Is Jawaharlal a male or female name?
- Jawaharlal 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Jawaharlal?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Jawaharlal in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jawaharlal. After it come Indonesia, Pakistan, United States and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Jawaharlal?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 2 people named Jawaharlal in 2025, about 1 in 375 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jawaharlalThe 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, “Jawaharlal” — ranked 118205th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.