Jaya
loc · Latin script
Meaning: » name of many men and Devas (P); Aghora (N);
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/d͡ʒaja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jaya is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 42K(inferred from the name graph)
- NPNepal≈1 in 1.9K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 6.2K
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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 271 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jay-A in PH Philippines.
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)
» name of many men and Devas (P); Aghora (N);
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jaya 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Jaya | 41 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Jaya | 58 |
| US United States | 5,196 | 1 in 64K | 4.8K | Jaya | 271 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Jaya | 20 |
| PH Philippines | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Jay-A | 41 |
| AU Australia | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 42K | 3 | Jaya | 105 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 56K | 11 | Jaya | 30 |
| GY Guyana | 50 | 1 in 15K | 50 | — | 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; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Jaya 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.
Feminine form of jay; an epithet of Durga, the wife of Shiva. Also the name of a Buddhist goddess.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Indonesian, syllabic abbreviation of Jakarta Raya (“Greater Jakarta”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malay, synonym of kejayaan (“victory, success”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Sanskrit; the powerful conqueror
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
name of a god; victory
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
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)
- Jaya Mehtab. 1932INGujarati poet, critic and translator from Gujarat, India
- B. Jayab. 1944INIndian actress
- Jaya Bhaduri Bachchanb. 1948INIndian politician and actress
- Jaya Thyagarajanb. 1954INIndian artist
- Jaya Pradab. 1962INIndian actress and politician
- Jaya Bhattacharyab. 1972INIndian actress
- Jaya Ahsanb. 1983INBangladeshi model and actress
- Herwin Jayab. 1985IDIndonesian bicycle racer
- Jaya Kishorib. 1995INIndian motivational speaker
- Jaya Harperb. 2004USAmerican 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 68 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 240 | #84,231 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 200 | #91,981 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 114 | #135,837 |
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 Jaya mean, and where does it come from?
- » name of many men and Devas (P); Aghora (N); Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- How do you pronounce Jaya?
- A machine transcription gives /d͡ʒaja/ (IPA) for Malay.
- In which country does Jaya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Jaya in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jaya.
- How common is the name Jaya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,196 people named Jaya in 2020, about 1 in 64 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jaya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jayaThe 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, “Jaya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.