Jhá
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jhá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Hindu (Brahman) name, from a much reduced form of Sanskrit upadhyaya ‘teacher’.
- INIndia1 in 20K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 66K
- NONorway1 in 78K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
66,038 people
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jha in IN India, US United States.
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
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jhá 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.
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 Jhá 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 Jhá have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 66 thousand people named Jhá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jha.
- Where is Jhá most common?
- Jhá is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 20 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jhá?
- In India, the national register counted 66,038 people named Jhá, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jh%C3%A1The 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, “Jhá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.