Janitha
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Janitha is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. In Sri Lanka it is the 57th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Sinhala, written in the Latin script.
- LKSri Lanka1 in 960◐
- FIFinland1 in 2.2K
- NLNetherlands1 in 13K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈6.4K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 59 ●
- 1 in 2.2K ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
6.4K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Janith in LK Sri Lanka, IT Italy, CN China and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | — | 2,568 | — | 1 in 2.2K | 2.6K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 1,682△ | 562 rec. | 1 in 198K | 1.7K | Janitha | 59 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #57 | 1,490 | 4.7K rec. | — | — | Janith | 55 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,303△ | 10 rec. | 1 in 13K | 1.3K | Janitha | 4 |
| IN India | — | 524 | 475 rec. | — | 1 | Janitha | 33 |
| BR Brazil | — | 337 | — | 1 in 628K | 397 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 256△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 21K | 856 | — | 3 |
| AU Australia | — | 247 | 233 rec. | — | 4 | Janitha | 34 |
| SE Sweden | — | 167 | 0 rec. | 1 in 61K | 167 | — | 3 |
| PH Philippines | — | 149 | 133 rec. | — | — | Janitha | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 90 | 48 rec. | — | listed | Janitha | 17 |
| LV Latvia | — | 53 | — | 1 in 35K | 53 | — | — |
Roughly 2.6K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 2.2K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English85135%
- Sinhala59324%
- Hindi41517%
- Spanish773%
- Indonesian643%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 851 | 35% |
| Sinhala | 593 | 24% |
| Hindi | 415 | 17% |
| Spanish | 77 | 3% |
| Indonesian | 64 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Janitha Bandab. 1982DEvisual artist
- Janitha Hewawasamb. 1983LKSri Lankan cricketer
- Janitha WalpitaUSsenior lecturer at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura
- Janitha MudannayakeNZNew Zealand-trained neuroscienist
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 13 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Janitha?
- We estimate roughly 6.4 thousand people bear Janitha (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Janitha have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 2.6 thousand people bear Janitha in Finland, more than in any other country in our records.
- How common is Janitha compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Janitha is the 57th most common given name of 11,905 given names recorded there.
- Is Janitha a male or female name?
- Janitha is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/janithaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Janitha” — the 57th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.