Jami
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name of modern usage
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdʒeɪmi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jami is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 17K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 23K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 34K
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 Jami 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 451 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈40,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
a male given name of modern usage
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jami 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Jami | 10 |
| US United States | — | 19,459 | 1 in 17K | 19K | Jami | 451 |
| FI Finland | #721 | 3,506 | 1 in 1.6K | 3.6K | Jami | 36 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 3 | Jami | 95 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 1 | Jami | 14 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 6 | Jami | 102 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 720as Jamy | 1 in 24K | 366 | Jami | 13 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Jami | 12 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the ca-statcan-baby-names register; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Jami is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
compilador; compilator
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Arabic, gatherer, collector, author, writer
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
an Apsaras (K)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In Arabic, gatherer, collector, author, writer. Nur-ud-Din
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Serbo-Croatian, dative/locative singular of jama
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)
- Jami Bernardb. 1956USAmerican film critic
- Jami Sieberb. 1957USAmerican cellist, vocalist and composer
- Jami Miscikb. 1958USAmerican intelligence analyst and businessperson. CEO and Vice Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
- Jami Floydb. 1964USAmerican attorney, journalist, news network anchor, legal and political analyst, and former of White House Fellow
- Jami Gertzb. 1965USAmerican actress
- Jami Tobeyb. 1974USAmerican artist
- Jami Ferrellb. 1974USmodel and actor
- Jami-Lee Rossb. 1985NZNew Zealand politician
- Jami Rafatib. 1994ITItalian footballer
- Jami SmithUSAmerican singer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 53 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Is Jami a male or female name?
- Jami is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Jami mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name of modern usage Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Jami?
- In the etymology graph, Jaime, Jamie and Willie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Jami?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒeɪmi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jami have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 40 thousand people named Jami in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jami.
- Where is Jami most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jami is densest in Finland — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jami?
- In the United States, the national register counted 19,459 people named Jami in 2020, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Jami compared with other names?
- In Finland, Jami is the 721st most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jami?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jamiThe 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, “Jami” — the 721st most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.