Jayawardena
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dʒjəwɔɹdinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jayawardena is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- AUAustralia
- USUnited States
- LKSri Lanka
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kumari Jayawardenab. 1931LKSri Lankan academic and activist
- Lal Jayawardenab. 1935LKSri Lankan economist and diplomat
- Rohini Jayawardenab. 1947LKbadminton player
- Ranil Jayawardenab. 1986GBBritish politician
- Erandya JayawardenaLKresearcher (ORCID 0000-0003-2868-1023)
- Walter JayawardenaSri Lankan ambassador to the Soviet Union
- Ranil JayawardenaAUresearcher
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 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 158 | #116,774 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 126 | #133,863 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 17 | #28,605 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 14 | #43,133 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #225,973 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Jayawardena?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒjəwɔɹdinə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jayawardena have the most bearers?
- Jayawardena is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jayawardenaThe 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, “Jayawardena”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.