Yajna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A ritual of sacrifice to the Devas
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Yajna is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Mauritius it is the 82nd most common given name.
- INIndia≈1 in 930Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- MUMauritius≈1 in 5.6Kfew records
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 370Kfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mauritius, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A ritual of sacrifice to the Devas.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yajna 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 | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 926K | listed | Yajna | 33 |
| MU Mauritius | #82 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Yajna | 10 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 374K | — | Yajna | 11 |
| US United States | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 24M | — | Yajna | 25 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 15M | — | Yajna | 3 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Yajna | 11 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Yajna | 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: the in-kaggle-names-gender register. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yajna mean, and where does it come from?
- A ritual of sacrifice to the Devas. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Yajna a male or female name?
- Yajna is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Yajna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Yajna in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yajna.
- How common is the name Yajna?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1,600 people in India have Yajna as their first given name, about 1 in 926 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Yajna compared with other names?
- In Mauritius, Yajna is the 82nd most common given name of 365 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yajnaThe 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, “Yajna” — the 82nd most common given name in Mauritius. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.