Jari

given name · Finnish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jari is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Jari är en finsk sammandragen form av Jalmari (< Jalmar < → Hjalmar).

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 142◐
  • SESweden1 in 4.3K
  • USUnited States1 in 308K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈47K ●

across 9 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
156 ●

17K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 142 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

JariLatin · Finnish●198K records
ЯриCyrillic · Russian●564 records
자리Hangul · Korean●0 records

Locally spelled Яри in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, Jali in MY Malaysia, ZA South Africa, Yari in ES Spain and Ярі in UA Ukraine.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Swedish

Jari är en finsk sammandragen form av Jalmari (< Jalmar < → Hjalmar). Jari användes i Finland för första gången som officiellt förnamn 1937. Det blev populärt under 1950-talet, och på 1960-talet var det Finlands mest populära pojknamn. Vid den tiden var också namn som → Kari (pojknamn) och → Sari (flicknamn) populära. Det svenska belägget från 1909 torde ha en annan språklig bakgrund.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jari is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland#5839,231△11K rec.1 in 14246KJari125
NL Netherlands—3,086△507 rec.1 in 5.6K3.1KJari38
IN India—2,5562K rec.—4.1KJari29
SE Sweden#7882,388△637 rec.1 in 4.3K2.4KJari69
US United States—1,0791.5K rec.1 in 308K1.1KJari156
BR Brazil—790—1 in 268K993——
EE Estonia#808369121 rec.—12Jari10
IT Italy—234240 rec.—13Jari33
BE Belgium—197160 rec.—14Jari31
GB United Kingdom—173128 rec.—listedJari31
DK Denmark—171—1 in 34K171——
CA Canada—117109 rec.—1Jari35

Roughly 39K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 142). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Finnish198K76%
  • Portuguese14K6%
  • English13K5%
  • Western Frisian5.6K2%
  • Chinese5.3K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Finnish197,72476%
Portuguese14,3916%
English12,8515%
Western Frisian5,5642%
Chinese5,2882%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jari is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name27K records spelled Jari12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, United States, Finland, Denmark

    Languages: English, Western Frisian, Dutch

    Also written J'Ari, Jarí

  • Portuguese given name17K records spelled Jari7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Finland, France, Netherlands

    Languages: Portuguese, French, Italian

    Also written Ja-Ri, Jarí

  • a separate given name1.3K records spelled Jari2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Finland, Sweden

    Also written Jarī

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Jari 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 German, männl. Vom. finnischer Herkunft, Kurz­ form von Jalmari (

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Guerriero con l’elmo

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • In non, name of a dwarf

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Indonesian, digit, finger

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In bjn, finger

    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.

Over time●

051015201920194019601980200018 · 1974

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Jari in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1914–2015
Yearrecords
19141
19171
19181
19201
19211
19251
19261
19272
19282
19291
19311
19322
19331
19345
19351
19373
19384
19391
19402
19414
19423
19434
19441
19455
19465
19474
19483
19493
19502
19513
19524
19535
19545
195510
19565
19576
19588
19594
19608
196111
19627
19637
19643
196513
19668
196714
19688
19694
19709
197111
197213
19737
197418
197512
197612
197714
197813
197910
198012
19818
19827
19839
198410
198513
198611
198714
19889
19896
19906
19917
19926
19935
19946
19957
19961
19973
19981
20081
20112
20141
20151

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 81 years between 1914–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Jari Puikkonen, b. 1959Jari Kurri, b. 1960Jari Europaeus, b. 1962Jari Räsänen, b. 1966Jari Rantala, b. 1967Jari Litmanen, b. 1971Jari Mäenpää, b. 1977Jari-Matti Latvala, b. 1985Jari Vandeputte, b. 1996Jari Schuurman, b. 1997

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●

Attested in 59 sources across 33 countries.

Official registers attesting Jari
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—46K#85
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—39K—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—3.1K#517
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—2.5K#1,205
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2.4K#951
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.9K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—993#9,261
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022790—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—702#9,760
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020403#14,685
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020395#14,685
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—171#1,000

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 441 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jari?
We estimate roughly 47 thousand people bear Jari (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Jari have the most bearers?
We estimate about 39 thousand people bear Jari in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled jari.
Where is Jari most common?
Jari is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 142 people carrying it.
How common is Jari compared with other names?
In Finland, Jari is the 58th most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
Is Jari a male or female name?
Jari 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.
What does the name Jari mean?
Recorded meaning: Jari är en finsk sammandragen form av Jalmari (< Jalmar < → Hjalmar).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Jari” — the 58th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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