Jī
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hanyu Pinyin reading of 丌
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jī is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 82K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 14K
- FIFinland1 in 34K
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
- 311 (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 丌
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jī 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)
Jī 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 kix, a dog(a domesticated carnivorous mammal with four legs, especially kept as a pet or to hunt or guard things)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rtm, plant with ornamental leaves and a sweet root: Cordyline terminalis
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of じい
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ltg, they (masculine)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In myb, hand
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)
- 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)
- Guan Zhongb. 720CNnot in their usual nameChinese chancellor and reformer (c. 720–645 BC)
- Dan of Zhoub. 1100not in their usual nameLegendary regional lord, regent, and culture hero of the early Zhou dynasty
- Wenb. 1112not in their usual nameKing of Zhou
- Ji Pengfeib. 1910CNChinese politician (1910-2000)
- Taibob. 2000not in their usual nameFounder of the state of Wu
- King Qing of Zhounot in their usual name19th Zhou king
- King Ding of Zhounot in their usual nameancient Chinese king of the Zhou dynasty
- King Kuang of Zhounot in their usual nameKing of Zhou Dynasty China
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 Jī mean, and where does it come from?
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 丌 Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Jī have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Jī, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ji.
- Where is Jī most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jī 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 Jī?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,039 people named Jī in 2010, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
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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%C4%ABThe 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, “Jī”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.