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Ji

UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Wisdom, intellect

Ji has been given to 414 babies in the U.S. since 1967. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1991, with 15 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 61% girls, 39% boys all-time.

Babies named Ji, 2006

1 in 495,000

Ji over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Ji over time

In 2024, Ji went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19672024

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Ji: meaning, origin, and history

Wisdom, intellect

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ji means

Ji means “wisdom, intellect”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ji is used in Korean (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /d͡ʑi/ for Ji.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 251 girls were recorded with the name Ji between 1967 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1991; its best national rank was #5,805 in 1985.

In the United States, 163 boys were recorded with the name Ji between 1976 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1999; its best national rank was #5,363 in 1989.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Ji?

Ji had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 495,000
8 of 3,956,166 births
Among girls only
1 in 238,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
342,777 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ji sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 342,777 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ji. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ji was born before 1990 — so the typical Ji is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
39.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
251
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 39.4% of all recorded uses (99).

Is Ji rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1991 (15)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,805
1985

Where Ji is used

Across 1910–2025, Ji was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 680,117 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kansas1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ji has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ji around the world

Where Ji ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2013
    #4,050
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1997–2010
    #3,238
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1995–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ji by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,805
1985
Peak year
1991
15 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
251
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,363
1989
Peak year
1999
10 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
163
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ji

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ji

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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