Jha
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hindu (Brahman) name, from a much reduced form of Sanskrit upadhyaya ‘teacher’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Jha is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 66,038 people, counted by Instate. Jha is also written יהא in Hebrew.
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 12Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- QAQatar≈1 in 12Kfew records
- INIndia1 in 20K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- #489 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 296 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
66,038 people
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Jha in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Hindu (Brahman) name, from a much reduced form of Sanskrit upadhyaya ‘teacher’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Jha is found
(measured from records)Jha 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 | #86 | 66,038 | 1 in 20K | 66K | Jha | 296 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Jha | 30 |
| US United States | — | 1,513 | 1 in 220K | 3.2K | Jha | 292 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Jha | 21 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #527 | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Jha | 53 |
| QA Qatar | #522 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Jha | 14 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Jha | 4 |
66,038 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Parmanand Jhab. 1944NPNepalese politician and judge
- Narendra Jhab. 1962INIndian actor (1962-2018)
- Ashish Jhab. 1970USIndian-American physician
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jha mean, and where does it come from?
- Hindu (Brahman) name, from a much reduced form of Sanskrit upadhyaya ‘teacher’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Jha?
- In India, the national register counted about 66 thousand people named Jha, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jha. After it come Indonesia, United States, Malaysia and United Arab Emirates; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Jha?
- In India, the national register counted 66,038 people named Jha, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Jha compared with other names?
- In India, Jha is the 86th most common surname of 1,492,515 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/jhaThe 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, “Jha” — ranked 249th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.