Ji
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Initialism of John Innes, a generic range of horticultural composts
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 32 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈdʒi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ji is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
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)Initialism of John Innes, a generic range of horticultural composts.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ji is read
(measured from records)Ji is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- Hindi23%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ji in Hindi.
- English8.7%
Initialism of John Innes, a generic range of horticultural composts.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Chinese5.2%
nonstandard spelling of jī
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Collodion
as a wordrecorded as wuuAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
Monster
as a wordrecorded as wuuAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
Period
as a wordrecorded as wuuAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
Riding
as a wordrecorded as wuuAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Ji counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 6.4K | — |
| ES Spain | — | 3.5K | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 194 | — |
| FI Finland | — | 165 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 155 | — |
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 2020; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Menciusb. 372not in their usual nameChinese Confucian philosopher (372–289 BC)
- Shang Yangb. 390CNnot in their usual nameQin State statesman, chancellor and reformer (c. 390–338 BC)
- Wenb. 1112not in their usual nameKing of Zhou
- Chi Chengb. 1944TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese track and field athlete and Republic of China politician
- Ji Jin-heeb. 1971KRSouth Korean actor
- Ji Yun-namb. 1976KPNorth Korean footballer
- Ji Seung-hyunb. 1981KRSouth Korean actor
- Ji Hyeon-ub. 1984KRSouth Korean actor and musician
- Ji Chang-wookb. 1987KRSouth Korean actor
- Ji Dong-wonb. 1991KRSouth Korean footballer
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)55 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.4K | #5,237 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4K | #8,216 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.5K | #1,479 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.5K | #1,479 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,311 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 165 | #8,631 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
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 Ji mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of John Innes, a generic range of horticultural composts. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ji?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Ji have the most bearers?
- Ji is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Ji?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jiThe 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, “Ji”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.