Järvi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: lake (large, landlocked stretch of water)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jærʋi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Järvi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 268K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 1.1K
- SESweden1 in 58K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
4,936 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jarvi in US United States, FI Finland.
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)
lake (large, landlocked stretch of water)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Järvi 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 | 4,936 | 1 in 1.1K | 4.9K | Jarvi | 11 |
| US United States | 1,240 | 1 in 268K | 1.2K | Jarvi | 189 |
| SE Sweden | 176 | 1 in 58K | 176 | — | 4 |
| PL Poland | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 3 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | — |
4,936 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling järvi. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Järvi is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In izh, lake
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lauri Järvib. 1901FIFinnish politician
- Jorma Järvib. 1908FIFinnish architect
- Neeme Järvib. 1937EEEstonian conductor (born 1937)
- Raivo Järvib. 1954EEEstonian artist, radio personality and politician (1954–2012)
- Paavo Järvib. 1962EEEstonian conductor (born 1962)
- Maarika Järvib. 1964EEEstonian-American flautist (born 1964)
- Iiro Järvib. 1965FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Jyrki Järvib. 1966FIFinnish sailor
- Sam Lakeb. 1970FInot in their usual nameFinnish video game writer
- Kristjan Järvib. 1972EEEstonian conductor (born 1972)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 4.9K | #375 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 2.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 176 | #4,642 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #266,453 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #342,394 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #206,723 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Järvi mean, and where does it come from?
- lake (large, landlocked stretch of water) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Järvi?
- A machine transcription gives /jærʋi/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- In which country does Järvi have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Järvi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jarvi.
- Where is Järvi most common?
- Järvi is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Järvi?
- In Finland, the national register counted 4,936 people named Järvi, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Järvi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%A4rviThe 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, “Järvi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.