Jayantha
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jayantha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Sanskrit जयन्त (jayanta).
- USUnited States1 in 1.5Mas Jayanta(measured from records)
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 1.4K
- QAQatar≈1 in 34K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jayantha itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jayanta in US United States, BD Bangladesh, ID Indonesia and 1 more.
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)
Borrowed from Sanskrit जयन्त (jayanta).
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jayantha 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | #131 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Jayantha | 61 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Jayanta | 37 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Jayanta | 36 |
| US United States | — | 224as Jayanta | 1 in 1.5M | 216 | Jayanta | 126 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 233K | — | Jayantha | 8 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Jayanta | 17 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Jayantha | 6 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Jayantha | 6 |
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. 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)
Jayantha is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The son of Indra.
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jayantha mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Sanskrit जयन्त (jayanta). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Jayantha a male or female name?
- Jayantha is a male 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 Jayantha have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Jayantha in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jayantha.
- How common is the name Jayantha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 224 people named Jayanta in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
- How common is Jayantha compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Jayantha is the 131st most common given name of 14,062 given names 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/jayanthaThe 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, “Jayantha” — the 131st most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.