Jiri
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Zezuru (Zimbabwe): 'forest of wild fruits'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jiri is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common given name.
- CZCzechia1 in 18(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 16K
- DEGermany≈1 in 48K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 218 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18 (inferred from the name graph)
592,180 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jiří in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia.
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)
Zezuru (Zimbabwe): 'forest of wild fruits'.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jiri 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #5 | 592,180 | 1 in 18 | 592K | Jiří | 206 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Jiri | 98 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,440 | 1 in 3.9K | 1.6K | Jiri | 23 |
| US United States | — | 677 | 1 in 491K | 1.6K | Jiri | 218 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 126K | 9 | Jiri | 100 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 56 | Jiri | 44 |
| SK Slovakia | #140 | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Jiří | 54 |
| CY Cyprus | #768 | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Jiri | 10 |
592,180 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Jiri 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.
In sbb, a plant, general term for Dracaena sp.
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In scn, to go (away from speaker and listener)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, to take place, happen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In acy, to run, to hasten
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vma, spine, thorn
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)
- Jiri Prochazkab. 1923CAarchitect and professor at Université Laval
- Felix Weinbergb. 1928GBnot in their usual nameBritish physicist
- Jiri D Sonekb. 1955CZresearcher
- Jiri Nikkinenb. 1965FIFinnish musician
- Jiri Holnab. 1970CZCzech actor
- Jiri Evenhuisb. 1973NLDutch industrial designer in Singapore (born 1973)
- Jiri Oplatekb. 1976CHSwiss graphic designer (born 1976)
- Jiri Majerb. 1978chess player
- Jiri Keronenb. 1984FIFinnish politician
- Jiri HollanSIresearcher
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 39 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.6K | #594 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 1.4K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 657 | #16,588 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 20 | #16,588 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #28,582 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 12 | #4,944 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 6 | #3,011 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2013 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Jiri mean, and where does it come from?
- Zezuru (Zimbabwe): 'forest of wild fruits'. Recorded by African Names.
- Is Jiri a male or female name?
- Jiri is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jiri have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 592 thousand people named Jiri, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jiří.
- Where is Jiri most common?
- Jiri is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 18 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jiri?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 592,180 people named Jiri, about 1 in 18 residents.
- How common is Jiri compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Jiri is the 5th most common given name of 16,679 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jiriThe 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, “Jiri” — the 5th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.