Jahan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A transliteration of the Persian unisex given name جهان (jahân)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒəhaːn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jahan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common surname.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 353(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 13K
- USUnited States1 in 240K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 353 (inferred from the name graph)
≈460,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, 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 transliteration of the Persian unisex given name جهان (jahân).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jahan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #26 | ≈460,000 est. | ≈1 in 353 | listed | Jahan | 124 |
| PK Pakistan | #254 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | listed | Jahan | 57 |
| US United States | — | 1,386 | 1 in 240K | 2.6K | Jahan | 180 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 51K | 175 | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Jahan | 23 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Jahan | 14 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Jahan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, world. See Dunya (A) ss (f.)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, world, dunya Las
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, world
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
world; age
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
King
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
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)
- Nur Jahanb. 1577AFPadshah Begum of the Mughal Empire (1577-1645)
- Malekeh Jahanb. 1875IRprince
- Rashid Jahanb. 1905INIndian writer (1905–1952)
- Pierre Jahanb. 1909FRFrench photographer (1909–2003)
- Arash Jahanb. 1957IRIranian athlete
- Marine Jahanb. 1959FRFrench actress, dancer
- Ismat Jahanb. 1960BDBangladeshi diplomat
- Selina Jahan Litab. 1970BDBangladeshi politician, Member of parliament
- Olivier JahanFRFrench film director
- Tareen JahanBDBangladeshi actress
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 63 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.6K | #11,562 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,489 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 604 | #35,288 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 175 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Jahan mean, and where does it come from?
- A transliteration of the Persian unisex given name جهان (jahân). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Jahan?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒəhaːn/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Jahan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 460 thousand people named Jahan in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jahan.
- How common is the name Jahan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,386 people named Jahan in 2010, about 1 in 240 thousand residents.
- How common is Jahan compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Jahan is the 26th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jahanThe 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, “Jahan” — the 26th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.