Jhā

Name: Jhā: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

Jhā is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 86th most common surname.

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)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

JhāLatin

יהאHebrew

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jha in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 4 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Cited for this meaning 1

Digital Pāḷi Dictionary

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Jhā 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.

Where Jhā is recorded, by country
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).

Other names spelled this way

Jhā is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Jha
Sanskrit surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India
Also written Jha, Jhâ
Nepali surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Nepal, India
Also written Jha, Jhä
Spanish surname13 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Mexico
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian
Also written Jha, Jhá, Jhä, Jhà, Jhã
Hungarian surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Finland
Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian
Also written Jha

5 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Jhā under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Jhā have the most bearers?: In India, the national register counted about 66 thousand people named Jhā, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jha.
How common is the name Jhā?: In India, the national register counted 66,038 people named Jhā, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
How common is Jhā compared with other names?: In India, Jhā is the 86th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-13 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, “Jhā” — the 86th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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