Given name & surname · also Indian
Jyoti
“born of the light”
Jyoti is used as a given name and a surname. One Indian interpretation is “born of the light.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “born of the light.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Sanskrit.
How it developed
The name draws on Sanskrit jyotis, meaning “light”.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1968. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jyoti through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 235
- 0 boys · 235 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,937 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jyoti’s family of names
Jyoti has a related form in Jyotika. Jyoti has a related form in Jyotea. Jyoti has a related form in Jyotee.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Jyoti
- Jyoti AmgeIndian actress notable for being the world's smallest living womanborn 1993
- Jyoti GondekCanadian politicianborn 1969
- Jyoti GogteIndian author, entrepreneur and academicianborn 1956
- Jyoti Aroranovelist and bloggerborn 1977
- Jyoti Sunita KulluIndian field hockey playerborn 1978
- Jyoti Randhawaprofessional golferborn 1972
- Jyoti GaubaIndian television and film actressborn 1982
- Jyoti Singh Pandey1989–2012
- Jyoti MistrySouth African film directorborn 1970
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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