Johari
Johari is given to both girls and boys: 8 girls and 28 boys were given it in 2025 (#11,362 among girls’ names and #3,890 among boys’, #7,037 among all names counting both); 721 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Johari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Johari mean?
Wiktionary, Swahili section
Johari is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “jewel” (johari).
From johari (“jewel”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swahili section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Johari?
#11,362 among girls’ names, 2025
Johari rose from #12,347 in 2015 to #11,362 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 5.0 per million.
43 babies in 2024, the peak
Johari peaked in 2024, when 43 babies were given it (12 girls, #8,671 among girls’ names). The 36 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 84% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,362 | 28 | #3,890 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,671 | 31 | #3,640 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,525 | 20 | #4,967 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,539 | 17 | #5,525 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,428 | 17 | #5,436 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,163 | 16 | #5,558 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,163 | 8 | #9,266 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,644 | 9 | #8,462 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,514 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,275 | 5 | #13,145 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,347 | 6 | #11,346 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,853 | 6 | #11,373 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,882 | 5 | #13,022 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,743 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,693 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 12 | #6,876 | |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,368 | 10 | #7,976 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,404 | 10 | #7,970 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,890 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,567 | 6 | #11,282 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,359 | 12 | #6,398 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,976 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,682 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,646 | 11 | #6,291 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,652 | 5 | #11,394 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,939 | 11 | #6,097 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,920 | 10 | #6,253 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,677 | 12 | #5,287 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 8 | #6,906 | |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,971 | 5 | #9,704 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,443 | 6 | #8,282 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,452 | 5 | #9,393 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,216 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 5 | #8,826 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,105 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,820 | |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,528 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,696 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,460 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,991 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,045 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,262 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,657 | 5 | #5,868 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,521 | 6 | #4,919 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,650 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,854 | 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 Johari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 721 Americans recorded as Johari, 57% are girls and 43% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Johari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Johari, and how old are they?
An estimated 709 Americans named Johari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 5 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 590 people named Johari (382 women and girls, 208 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 502 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,529 babies since 1880, Johari is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 165 babies (22%), the third 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Johari
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Johari and names like it
- Compare Johari and JoriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJohari peaked in 2024.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Johari.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Johari alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.