Lari
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The national currency of Georgia, divided into 100 tetri
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/lˈɑːɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lari is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 259K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 2.8K
- HRCroatia1 in 49K
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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
1,999 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The national currency of Georgia, divided into 100 tetri.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lari 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 | 1,999 | 1 in 2.8K | 2.1K | Lari | 7 |
| US United States | 889 | 1 in 374K | 775 | Lari | 69 |
| BR Brazil | 817 | 1 in 259K | 817 | Lari | 74 |
| RO Romania | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Lari | 10 |
| PH Philippines | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 855K | — | Lari | 12 |
| HR Croatia | 86 | 1 in 49K | 87 | — | — |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 3 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 132K | 12 | — | 2 |
1,999 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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)
Lari 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 Finnish, lari (national currency of Georgia)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, da Ilario
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Congolese Bantu people.
as a nameAfrican Names
Persian ‘silver coin
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In dag, suffix, the plural form of Toyu’, the masculine indicator for certain animals
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
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)
- Corinne Coleb. 1937USnot in their usual nameAmerican Playboy Playmate
- Lari Williamsb. 1940NGNigerian actor and poet
- Lari Pittmanb. 1952USAmerican painter (born 1952)
- Lari Whiteb. 1965USAmerican singer-songwriter (1965-2018)
- Lari Kangasb. 1973FIFinnish basketball player (born 1973)
- Lari Kotilainenb. 1974FIFinnish linguist
- Lari Halmeb. 1976FIFinnish actor
- Lari Ketnerb. 1977USAmerican basketball player (born 1977)
- Lari Giorgescub. 1986RORomanian actor
- Lari Lehtonenb. 1987FIFinnish cross-country skier
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 47 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 2.1K | #520 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 817 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 775 | #13,538 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 749 | #11,075 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 640 | #5,190 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 523 | #9,532 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 294 | #9,532 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 132 | #18,590 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 114 | #13,538 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 87 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 86 | #1,751 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Lari mean, and where does it come from?
- The national currency of Georgia, divided into 100 tetri. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Lari?
- A machine transcription gives /lˈɑːɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Lari a male or female name?
- Lari 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 are other forms of the name Lari?
- In the etymology graph, Larry, Lawrence and Laurie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Lari have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Lari, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lari.
- Where is Lari most common?
- Lari is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lari?
- In Finland, the national register counted 1,999 people named Lari, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lariThe 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, “Lari”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.