# Jari (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jari/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 671 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 290 / 381 (57% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 6, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 8 | 7,851 |
| 1988 | 5 | 12,573 |
| 1993 | 9 | 9,033 |
| 1994 | 5 | 14,322 |
| 1998 | 8 | 10,513 |
| 2001 | 8 | 11,444 |
| 2004 | 7 | 13,334 |
| 2016 | 6 | 15,129 |
| 2019 | 11 | 9,366 |
| 2020 | 6 | 14,157 |
| 2021 | 8 | 11,554 |
| 2022 | 7 | 12,793 |
| 2023 | 10 | 9,901 |
| 2024 | 10 | 9,850 |
| 2025 | 7 | 12,459 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | 13,147 |
| 2012 | 13 | 6,463 |
| 2013 | 9 | 8,393 |
| 2014 | 9 | 8,425 |
| 2015 | 7 | 9,998 |
| 2016 | 13 | 6,500 |
| 2017 | 12 | 6,875 |
| 2018 | 10 | 7,841 |
| 2019 | 10 | 7,891 |
| 2020 | 10 | 7,759 |
| 2021 | 18 | 5,218 |
| 2022 | 12 | 6,995 |
| 2023 | 7 | 10,164 |
| 2024 | 10 | 7,998 |
| 2025 | 11 | 7,383 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 3 | 3,134 |
| 2002 | 3 | 3,225 |

## People named Jari

- Jari Litmanen, Finnish footballer (born 1951)
- Jari Kurri, Finnish ice hockey player
- Jari-Matti Latvala, Finnish rally driver
- Jari Puikkonen, Finnish ski jumper
- Jari Sillanpää, Finnish singer
- Jari Mäenpää, Finnish heavy metal musician
- Jari Lipponen, archer
- Jari Isometsä, Finnish cross-country skier
- Jari Mantila, Finnish Nordic combined skier
- Jari Rantanen, Finnish association football player
- Jari Räsänen, cross-country skier
- Jari Leppä, Finnish politician

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.