Jári
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jári is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Originally a pet form of Jalmari, from Swedish Hjalmar and, rarely, of Jarl.
- FIFinland1 in 142(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 4.3K
- USUnited States1 in 292Kas Zari
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jári itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 177 (measured from records)
- 1 in 142 (inferred from the name graph)
39,231 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jari in FI Finland, NL Netherlands, SE Sweden and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Originally a pet form of Jalmari, from Swedish Hjalmar and, rarely, of Jarl.
Sources 3
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jári 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | #10 | 39,231 | 1 in 142 | 46K | Jari | 140 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 3,100 | 1 in 5.6K | 3.1K | Jari | 35 |
| SE Sweden | #768 | 2,388 | 1 in 4.3K | 2.4K | Jari | 78 |
| US United States | — | 1,138as Zari | 1 in 292K | 1.1K | Jari | 177 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 222K | listed | Jari | 10 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 14 | Jari | 29 |
| EE Estonia | #349 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 12 | Jari | 11 |
39,231 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jári mean, and where does it come from?
- Originally a pet form of Jalmari, from Swedish Hjalmar and, rarely, of Jarl. Recorded by Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Jári have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 39 thousand people named Jári, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jari.
- Where is Jári most common?
- Jári is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 142 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jári?
- In Finland, the national register counted 39,231 people named Jári, about 1 in 142 residents.
- How common is Jári compared with other names?
- In Finland, Jári is the 10th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%A1riThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Jári” — the 10th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.