Dhaniya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A potter of Rājagaha; hosted the Buddha's teaching to Pukkusāti and later was rebuked over a hut built with royal timber supplies (Thag
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dhaniya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.5M(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 3.5M
- USUnited States≈1 in 328M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)
≈76 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A potter of Rājagaha; hosted the Buddha's teaching to Pukkusāti and later was rebuked over a hut built with royal timber supplies (Thag. VI 228-30; ThagA. i. 347; Vin. iiif. 41-5; Sp. if. 286).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dhaniya 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | — | Dhaniya | 8 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Dhaniya | 9 |
| US United States | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 328M | — | Dhaniya | 4 |
| IN India | — | — | 85 | Dhaniya | 44 |
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. 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)
Dhaniya is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In pi, A herdsman on the Mahī, son of a seṭṭhi of Dhammakoṇḍa in Pabbataraṭṭha; met the Buddha and became an arahant with his wife (SN. vv. 18 ff.; SNA. i. 26 ff.).
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
In pi, A herdsman who later became an arahant; in Sikhī Buddha’s time he was a householder and offered a reed-chain (naḷamālā). Ap.ii.412.
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Dhaniya come from?
- A potter of Rājagaha; hosted the Buddha's teaching to Pukkusāti and later was rebuked over a hut built with royal timber supplies (Thag. VI 228-30; ThagA. i. 347; Vin. iiif. 41-5; Sp. if. 286). Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh).
- What does the name Dhaniya mean?
- Recorded meaning: A potter of Rājagaha; hosted the Buddha's teaching to Pukkusāti and later was rebuked over a hut built with royal timber supplies (Thag.
- Is Dhaniya a male or female name?
- Dhaniya is a female 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.
- In which country does Dhaniya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 76 people named Dhaniya in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dhaniya.
- How common is the name Dhaniya?
- Mondonomo estimates about 76 people in Indonesia have Dhaniya as their first given name, about 1 in 3.5 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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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, “Dhaniya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.