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Jyotsna

Girls' name

Moonlight

Jyotsna has been given to 34 babies in the U.S. since 2001. 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 2008, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Jyotsna, 2012

1 in 610,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jyotsna: meaning, origin, and history

Moonlight

Sanskrit

What Jyotsna means

Jyotsna means “moonlight”, associated with jyotsnā.

Origin, language, and formation

Jyotsna is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Jyotsna comes through Sanskrit ज्योत्स्ना.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 34 girls were recorded with the name Jyotsna between 2001 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2008; its best national rank was #14,543 in 2008.

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 Jyotsna?

Jyotsna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 610,000
6 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only
1 in 293,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
422,543 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jyotsna 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 2012 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 422,543 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jyotsna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jyotsnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jyotsna was born before 2008 — so the typical Jyotsna is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
67.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
34
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2000s — 67.6% of all recorded uses (23).

Is Jyotsna 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 2008 (7)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#14,543
2008

Jyotsna around the world

Where Jyotsna 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
    2009–2009
    #5,556
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Jyotsna 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
#14,543
2008
Peak year
2008
7 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
34
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jyotsna

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

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Sibling names for Jyotsna

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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