Jhaveri

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Hindu (Vania) and Parsi name meaning ‘jeweler’, ‘appraiser of precious stones’ in Gujarati, from Arabic jawhari (Dictionary of American Family Names)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

Pronunciation:Explore pronunciation →

Jhaveri is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 896 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.

  • BEBelgium1 in 244K(measured from records)
  • CACanada≈1 in 310Kfew records
  • USUnited States1 in 371K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

896 people, 2010

Record sources
219 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 89K (inferred from the name graph)

Hong Kong, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Hindu (Vania) and Parsi name meaning ‘jeweler’, ‘appraiser of precious stones’ in Gujarati, from Arabic jawhari.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Jhaveri is found

(measured from records)

Jhaveri 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 Jhaveri is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8961 in 371K1.1KJhaveri219
CA Canada≈130 est.≈1 in 313K—Jhaveri38
ZA South Africa≈130 est.≈1 in 500K—Jhaveri11
GB United Kingdom≈130 est.≈1 in 551K—Jhaveri43
HK Hong Kong≈84 est.≈1 in 89K—Jhaveri11
BE Belgium481 in 244K48Jhaveri7
SG Singapore≈17 est.≈1 in 358K—Jhaveri16

896 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Jhaveri is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Jhaverī

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Jhaverī

  • Thai surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Thailand, United States

    Also written จาเวอรี, จาเวอร

47 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Jhaveri is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A surname from Gujarati.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1850190019502000Krishnalal Mohanlal Jhaveri, b. 1868Mansukhlal Jhaveri, b. 1907Yash Jhaveri, b. 1987

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
Formalआदरणीया श्रीमती Jhaveri जी,Respected Jhaveri ji, (English)
Informalनमस्ते Jhaveri जी,Hi Jhaveri, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Jhaveri mean, and where does it come from?
Hindu (Vania) and Parsi name meaning ‘jeweler’, ‘appraiser of precious stones’ in Gujarati, from Arabic jawhari. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Jhaveri?
In the United States, the national register counted about 896 people named Jhaveri, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jhaveri. After it come Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom and Hong Kong; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Jhaveri?
In the United States, the national register counted 896 people named Jhaveri in 2010, about 1 in 371 thousand residents.

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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 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, “Jhaveri” — ranked 24443rd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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