Given name
Jyotsna
“woman of the moonlight”
Jyotsna is used as a given name. One Indian interpretation is “woman of the moonlight.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “woman of the moonlight.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2001. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jyotsna through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 34
- 0 boys · 34 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 7 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 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,318 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.
Jyotsna’s family of names
In English usage, Jyotsna was borrowed from ज्योत्स्ना.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jyotsna
- Jyotsna BholeIndian singer and actress1914–2001
- Jyotsna DhawanIndian cell and molecular biologist and stem-cell researcherborn 1959
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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