Jie

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Chinese: Hanyu Pinyin reading of 价

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Jie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 38K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 38K
  • DKDenmark1 in 79K

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.

United States (measured from records)

8,648 people, 2020

Sources
261 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

An ancient tribe of northern China, who were regarded as one of the Five Barbarians by the Han people.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

How Jie is read(measured from records)

Jie is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Chinese36%

    Hanyu Pinyin reading of 价

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English35%

    An ancient tribe of northern China, who were regarded as one of the Five Barbarians by the Han people.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Malay8.6%

    a surname from Hakka

    as a wordrecorded as Indonesiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jie 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.

Where Jie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—8,6481 in 38K5.5KJie261
ES Spain—6151 in 81K615—18
SE Sweden—2711 in 38K271—16
PL Poland—1561 in 245K87—2
DK Denmark—741 in 79K49—1
IS Iceland—41 in 88K4——
SG Singapore#390———Jie90

8,648 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jie is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, China, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Jié, Jìe

  • Malay given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, China

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Jié

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Jié

  • German given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, China, United States, Austria

    Also written Jìë

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, China, United States, Canada

    Also written Jié, Jiè

71 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Jie is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • ‘Cleanliness’.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Akan, has defiled himself (by eating something that was forbidden to him); ne yere de fi abeka no, his wife has defiled him (by adultery)

    as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)

  • In zlw-ocs, third-person singular present indicative of jiesti

    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)

0500100015002000Cao Jie, b. 200Emperor Zhaozong of Tang, b. 867Zhang Jie, b. 1937Yang Jiechang, b. 1956Dave Wang, b. 1962Liu Jie, b. 1970Li Jie, b. 1975Yao Jie, b. 1977Kong Jie, b. 1982Wang Jie, b. 1983
  • Cao Jieb. 200CNChinese Han dynasty empress (197-260)
  • Emperor Zhaozong of Tangb. 867not in their usual namefinal emperor of the Tang dynasty of China (r. 888-904)
  • Zhang Jieb. 1937CNChinese novelist and writer
  • Yang Jiechangb. 1956CNnot in their usual nameChinese artist (born 1956)
  • Dave Wangb. 1962TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese singer
  • Liu Jieb. 1970CNChinese politician
  • Li Jieb. 1975CNChinese actor (1975- )
  • Yao Jieb. 1977CNChinese-Dutch badminton player
  • Kong Jieb. 1982CNChinese Go player
  • Wang Jieb. 1983CNChinese beach volleyball player

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(measured from records)

Attested in 56 sources across 33 countries.

Official registers attesting Jie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.5K#2,708
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.2K#2,708
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—615#3,976
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—592#1,865
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—452#2,295
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—271#4,193
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020123—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202687#2,273
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—78#2,298
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—69#1,918
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202669#1,918
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—49#2,643

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

Where does the name Jie come from?
An ancient tribe of northern China, who were regarded as one of the Five Barbarians by the Han people. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What does the name Jie mean?
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 价
Is Jie a male or female name?
Jie 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.
In which country does Jie have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 8.6 thousand people named Jie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jie.
Where is Jie most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jie is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Jie?
In the United States, the national register counted 8,648 people named Jie in 2020, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
How common is Jie compared with other names?
In Singapore, Jie is the 390th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.

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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, “Jie” — the 390th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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