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Jyoti

Girls' name

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Jyoti has been given to 235 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 1979, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Jyoti, 2019

1 in 579,000

Jyoti over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jyoti: meaning, origin, and history

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Sanskrit

What Jyoti means

Jyoti means “light”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jyoti is used in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Assamese and Nepali.

Origin, language, and formation

Jyoti is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 235 girls were recorded with the name Jyoti between 1968 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1979; its best national rank was #5,560 in 1979.

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 Jyoti?

Jyoti had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 579,000
6 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 280,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
401,129 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jyoti sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 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 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jyoti. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jyotis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jyoti was born before 1985 — so the typical Jyoti is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
29.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
235
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (69).

Is Jyoti 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1979 (12)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,560
1979

Spellings of Jyoti

Jyoti is not the most common spelling — Jodi is, with 62.3% against Jyoti's 0.18%.

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.

Where Jyoti is used

Across 1910–2025, Jyoti was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jyoti has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jyoti around the world

Where Jyoti 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
    1996–2018
    #5,666
    in 2018
  • France
    2004–2004
    #4,898
    in 2004
  • Canada
    1992–1992
    #1,902
    in 1992
  • South Australia
    1978–1994
    #716
    in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jyoti by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,560
1979
Peak year
1979
12 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
235
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jyoti

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

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Sibling names for Jyoti

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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