Jussi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, and a common diminutive form of names related to Johannes
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Finland (DVV): listed as male
- Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as female
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
/ˈjusːi/(recorded in a dictionary) Finnish · from Wiktionary
Jussi is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 32nd most common given name.
- FIFinland1 in 254(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 7.7Kfew records
- SESweden1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- 1 in 254 (inferred from the name graph)
21,908 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)a male given name, and a common diminutive form of names related to Johannes
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jussi 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 | #32 | 21,908 | 1 in 254 | 25K | Jussi | 143 |
| SE Sweden | — | 604 | 1 in 17K | 604 | Jussi | 48 |
| EE Estonia | #573 | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | 16 | Jussi | 17 |
| US United States | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Jussi | 124 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Jussi | 20 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 53K | 46 | Jussi | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 3 | Jussi | 19 |
21,908 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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)Jussi 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.
In Latin, first-person singular perfect active indicative of jubeō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, matgrass
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
A Finnish form of JOHN .
as a word
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)- Vieno Johannes Sukselainenb. 1906FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician (1906–1995)
- Jussi Jalasb. 1908FIFinnish conductor (1908-1985)
- Jussi Björlingb. 1911SESwedish tenor (1911–1960)
- Timo Penttiläb. 1931FInot in their usual nameFinnish architect (1931-2011)
- Jussi Adler-Olsenb. 1950DKDanish author of novels
- Jussi Halla-ahob. 1971FIFinnish politician, Slavic linguist, and Speaker of the Parliament
- Jussi Jääskeläinenb. 1975FIFinnish footballer
- Jussi Markkanenb. 1975FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Jussi Vatanenb. 1978FIFinnish actor
- Jussi Jokinenb. 1983FIice hockey 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25K | #89 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 22K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 604 | #2,423 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 334 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 333 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 331 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 331 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 322 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 315 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 312 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 312 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 310 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Jussi mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, and a common diminutive form of names related to Johannes Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Jussi a male or female name?
- Jussi is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Finland (DVV): listed as male; Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as female. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What are other forms of the name Jussi?
- In the etymology graph, Jack, Johnny and Jo are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Johannes and Joni.
- How do you pronounce Jussi?
- In Finnish /ˈjusːi/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Jussi have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Jussi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jussi.
- Where is Jussi most common?
- Jussi is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 254 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jussi?
- In Finland, the national register counted 21,908 people named Jussi, about 1 in 254 residents.
- How common is Jussi compared with other names?
- In Finland, Jussi is the 32nd most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jussi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jussiThe 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, “Jussi” — the 32nd most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.