Nepali last name
Jha is a Nepali last name found among Newar-Brahman and Tarai-Brahman communities. Some families connect this name with Tirhute Brahman or Kashyap lineages. Spellings and traditions may vary by place and family.
Research summary
HamroBansa records Jha as a Nepali last name. The links below bring together reviewed community classifications, gotra traditions, place associations and public family histories without treating a shared surname as proof that two people are related.
The 2017 Krämer list has a Jha row under Newar, with Jha Brahman in its subgroup column. A second Jha row is listed as Tarai-Brahman and gives Kashyap in the clan/gotra column. Kashyap therefore belongs to the Tarai-Brahman row in this source; the table does not assign it to the Newar row or to every family named Jha.
Neither cited Jha row uses the label Tirhute Brahman. The Newar row names Jha Brahman as a subgroup; the Tarai-Brahman row names Kashyap as a gotra. These should not be combined into one family description. The table contains no household, place of origin, date of migration or connection between its two Jha entries. Any family-level conclusion needs records for that particular branch.
These links share a reviewed gotra connection or a recorded community classification with Jha. They are research leads, not evidence that families are related.
A shared last name does not establish a relationship between families. Compare names, dates, places and original records before drawing conclusions. Our editorial standards explain how catalog links and citations are assessed.
A surname alone cannot establish a person's ancestry or relationship to another family.
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