Jari
Jari is given to both girls and boys: 7 girls and 11 boys were given it in 2025 (#12,455 among girls’ names and #7,379 among boys’, #11,154 among all names counting both); 671 Americans have been recorded with it since 1942 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jari mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Jari is “a male given name”
Originally a pet form of Jalmar, Jalmari. Generally credited to Finnish author, translator and historian Jalmari Finne, whose godson (born in 1937) was likely the first to bear the name. Its popularity was further helped by novels, which featured a protagonist called Jari, written by Aino Räsänen in the 1940s. Finne may have used his own given name as the base when coining the new name. Also rarely used as a pet form of Jarl.
/ˈjɑri/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jari?
#12,455 among girls’ names, 2025
Jari entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #12,455 in 2025.
26 babies in 2021, the peak
Jari peaked in 2021, when 26 babies were given it (8 girls, #11,549 among girls’ names). The 18 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 69% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,455 | 11 | #7,379 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,845 | 10 | #7,993 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,896 | 7 | #10,159 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,788 | 12 | #6,990 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,549 | 18 | #5,213 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,152 | 10 | #7,754 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,361 | 10 | #7,886 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 10 | #7,837 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 12 | #6,871 | |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,124 | 13 | #6,495 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 7 | #9,992 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 9 | #8,419 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 9 | #8,388 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 13 | #6,457 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 5 | #13,139 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 6 | #11,332 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 8 | #9,352 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 8 | #9,351 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 8 | #9,254 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 5 | #12,197 | |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,328 | 10 | #7,208 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 9 | #7,286 | |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,437 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 5 | #11,127 | |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,506 | 7 | #7,935 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 6 | #8,370 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 7 | #7,313 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,316 | 7 | #7,288 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,027 | 7 | #7,140 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 7 | #6,841 | |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,566 | 6 | #6,765 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #7,453 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 8 | #5,059 | |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,848 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,590 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,904 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,541 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,345 | 10 | #3,966 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,815 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,368 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,380 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,075 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,766 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,604 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,644 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,914 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,682 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,497 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,019 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,677 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,678 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,787 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,904 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,288 | 5 | #4,208 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,043 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,558 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,195 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,097 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,355 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,448 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,563 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,493 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,925 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,526 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,177 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,505 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,975 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,935 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 671 Americans recorded as Jari, 57% are girls and 43% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jari, and how old are they?
An estimated 614 Americans named Jari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 9 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 798 people named Jari (403 women and girls, 395 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 520 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,012 babies since 1880, Jari is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 106 babies (17%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Jari and names like it
- Compare Jari and JariahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJari peaked in 2021.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Jari: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Jari.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jari alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.