Johari
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Swahili: jewel
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Johari is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. In Brunei it is the 60th most common surname.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 14K
- BNBrunei≈1 in 1.5K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Brunei, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Swahili: jewel
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Johari 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Johari | 86 |
| MY Malaysia | #90 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Johari | 85 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 2 | Johari | 12 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Johari | 37 |
| IN India | — | 327 | 1 in 4.1M | 327 | Johari | 30 |
| BN Brunei | #60 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Johari | 13 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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)
Johari is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, jewel (a gemstone)
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)
- Tantawi Joharib. 1870EGEgyptian writer
- Khir Joharib. 1923MYMalaysian politician and sports administrator (1923-2006)
- Harish Joharib. 1934INIndian musician, artist, philosopher, author
- Azizi Joharib. 1948USAmerican model and actress (born 1948)
- Ramesh Joharib. 1976USacademic; Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2004
- Meysam Joharib. 1985IRIranian rower
- Mansour JohariIRIranian transport engineer
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 31 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 327 | #12,562 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 94 | #3,853 |
| TZ Tanzania | INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results | 2020 | 2 | #11 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Johari mean, and where does it come from?
- Swahili: jewel Recorded by African Names.
- In which country does Johari have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Johari in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled johari.
- How common is the name Johari?
- In India, the national register counted 327 people named Johari, about 1 in 4.1 million residents.
- How common is Johari compared with other names?
- In Brunei, Johari is the 60th most common surname of 156 surnames 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, “Johari” — the 60th most common surname in Brunei. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.