Jí
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hanyu Pinyin reading of 亟
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jí is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 14K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 34K
- SISlovenia1 in 40K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 158 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
4,039 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ji in US United States, ES Spain, BE Belgium.
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)
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 亟
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jí 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.
4,039 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Jí 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 nap, alternative spelling of jire (“to go”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dyu, water
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, third-person singular of jíst
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kix, cogon grass
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, come
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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)
- Gan Jib. 101CNChinese Taoist priest (died 200)
- Empress Yang Zhib. 258not in their usual nameJin Dynasty empress
- Emperor Huizong of Songb. 1082CNnot in their usual nameemperor of the Song Dynasty (1082-1135)
- Kichi Saitōb. 1841JPnot in their usual namelady in late 1800s in Japan
- Chi Chenb. 1912USnot in their usual nameChinese-American painter (1912-2005)
- Louise Chowb. 1943TWnot in their usual nameProfessor of biochemistry and molecular genetics
- James Wanb. 1977MYnot in their usual nameMalaysian-Australian filmmaker (born 1977)
- Larry Yangb. 1982CNnot in their usual nameChinese screenwriter and director
- Yang Zib. 1988CNnot in their usual nameChinese Go player
- Chou Tzuyub. 1999TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese singer (born 1999)
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jí mean, and where does it come from?
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 亟 Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Jí a male or female name?
- Jí 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.
- In which country does Jí have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Jí, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ji.
- Where is Jí most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jí is densest in Spain — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jí?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,039 people named Jí in 2010, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jí?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%ADThe 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, “Jí”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.