Jayant
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘victorious’, name of the son of Indra (A concise dictionary of first names)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Jayant is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 9.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 54K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 200Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 238 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Sanskrit: ‘victorious’, name of the son of Indra.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jayant 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | 585 | Jayant | 217 |
| US United States | 933 | 1 in 357K | 930 | Jayant | 238 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 310K | — | Jayant | 17 |
| NL Netherlands | 320 | 1 in 54K | 320 | Jayant | 26 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 235K | listed | Jayant | 75 |
| AU Australia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Jayant | 68 |
| SG Singapore | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Jayant | 22 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 223K | — | Jayant | 13 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the hanks-first-names-2001 register; 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jayant mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘victorious’, name of the son of Indra. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Jayant?
- In the etymology graph, Jayanta is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Jayant a male or female name?
- Jayant is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), India (India Names Dataset) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- Which countries have the most people named Jayant?
- Mondonomo estimates about 156 thousand people named Jayant in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jayant. After it come United States, Indonesia, Netherlands and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Jayant?
- In the United States, the national register counted 933 people named Jayant in 2020, about 1 in 357 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jayantThe 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, “Jayant” — ranked 8229th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.