Jhala
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʒhala/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jhala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M
- UAUkraine≈1 in 151Kas Джала
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 Jhala 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 82K (inferred from the name graph)
1,134 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kuwait, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Джала in UA Ukraine.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jhala 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 | #533 | 1,134 | 1 in 1.2M | 1.1K | Jhala | 127 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Джала | 16 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Jhala | 2 |
| US United States | — | 153 | 1 in 2.2M | 216 | Jhala | 119 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 770K | — | Jhala | 39 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 574K | — | Jhala | 27 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Jhala | 3 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 529K | — | Jhala | 9 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 563K | — | Jhala | 7 |
1,134 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jhala 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, In Hindustani classical music, the fast-paced conclusion of a raga, often characterized by the overwhelming of the melodic component by the rhythmic component.
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.1K | #4,984 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 216 | #91,558 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 153 | #114,424 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 12 | #15,672 |
| 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 Jhala?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒhala/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Jhala have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Jhala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jhala.
- How common is the name Jhala?
- In India, the national register counted 1,134 people named Jhala, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Jhala compared with other names?
- In India, Jhala is the 533rd 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/jhalaThe 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, “Jhala” — the 533rd most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.