Jiya
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jiya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A township in Hotan City, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
- NPNepal≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 12K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 36K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
A township in Hotan City, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jiya 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Jiya | 20 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Jiya | 15 |
| CN China | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 456K | — | Jiya | 16 |
| NP Nepal | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Jiya | 12 |
| US United States | 1,685 | 1 in 197K | 1.7K | Jiya | 91 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 165K | — | Jiya | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | 143 | 1 in 121K | 143 | Jiya | 3 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Jiya is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Xhosa, to thicken
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In guw, to suffer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gue, kangaroo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tasa Jiyab. 1997NLDutch athlete
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #8,585 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 143 | #4,447 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 129 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 91 | #8,467 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 20 | #8,585 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jiya mean, and where does it come from?
- A township in Hotan City, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Jiya a male or female name?
- Jiya is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Jiya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Jiya in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jiya.
- How common is the name Jiya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,685 people named Jiya in 2020, about 1 in 197 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/jiyaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Jiya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.