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Jayant

Boys' name

To win, through जयन्त

Jayant has been given to 126 babies in the U.S. since 1984. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2005, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Jayant, 2013

1 in 521,000

Jayant over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jayant: meaning, origin, and history

To win, through जयन्त

Sanskrit

What Jayant means

Jayant belongs to the name family reached through Jayant → जयन्त. Its meaning is “to win”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jayant is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Jayant comes through Sanskrit जयन्त.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include जयन्त.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 126 boys were recorded with the name Jayant between 1984 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2005; its best national rank was #5,906 in 1984.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jayant?

Jayant had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 521,000
7 of 3,645,938 births
Among boys only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
361,026 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jayant sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 361,026 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jayant. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jayants were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jayant was born before 2005 — so the typical Jayant is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
45.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
126
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 45.2% of all recorded uses (57).

Is Jayant rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2005 (11)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,906
1984

Spellings of Jayant

Jayant is not the most common spelling — Bryant is, with 57.2% against Jayant's 0.14%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Jayant around the world

Where Jayant ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2000
    #3,036
    in 2000
  • France
    2017–2017
    #6,820
    in 2017

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Jayant by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,906
1984
Peak year
2005
11 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
126
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jayant

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Jayant

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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