How Many People Are Named Ji?
people named Ji are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 854,462 people in the US has this name
Based on 414 babies named Ji in Social Security records from 1967 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
21 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From Sino-Korean 智 (ji) meaning "wisdom, intellect" or other hanja characters with the same pronunciation. Although it does appear rarely as a single-character name, it is more often used in combination with another character.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
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⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Ji, 60.9% were girls and 39.1% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1980s: 61.6% of the babies were girls then and 69.2% in the 1990s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Ji alive today is about 34 years old, and 67% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 26 and 42 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Ji first appears in the records in 1967 and was given most often in 1991, to 21 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1967 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Ji has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #5,805, in 1985. Among boys, its best rank was #5,363, in 1989.
| Girls | Boys | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #5,805 (1985) | #5,363 (1989) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #8,287 in the 1990s | #6,222 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Ji alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Ji were born in Kansas than in any other state: about 15 of those alive today.
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