Jhà

surname · Latin script

Jhà is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 86th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Hindu (Brahman) name, from a much reduced form of Sanskrit upadhyaya ‘teacher’.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 20K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 220K
  • QAQatar≈1 in 7.1K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (measured from records)

66,038 people

#489 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
296 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 7.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Qatar, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JhàLatin(measured from records)
יהאHebrew(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jha in IN India, US United States, ID Indonesia and 4 more.

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)

Hindu (Brahman) name, from a much reduced form of Sanskrit upadhyaya ‘teacher’.

Sources 2

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jhà 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.

Where Jhà is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#8666,0381 in 20K66KJha296
ID Indonesia—≈12,000 est.≈1 in 23K—Jha30
US United States—1,5131 in 220K3.2KJha292
BD Bangladesh—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 122K—Jha14
AE United Arab Emirates#527≈990 est.≈1 in 10K—Jha53
QA Qatar#522≈340 est.≈1 in 7.1K—Jha14
BH Bahrain—≈69 est.≈1 in 22K—Jha4

66,038 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jhà is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Jha, Jhå

1 further group 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Jhà under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Jhà mean, and where does it come from?
Hindu (Brahman) name, from a much reduced form of Sanskrit upadhyaya ‘teacher’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary.
In which country does Jhà have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 66 thousand people named Jhà, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jha.
How common is the name Jhà?
In India, the national register counted 66,038 people named Jhà, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
How common is Jhà compared with other names?
In India, Jhà is the 86th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Jhà” — the 86th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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