Given name & surname
Ji
“one who is organized”
Ji is used as a given name and a surname. One Chinese interpretation is “one who is organized.”
Original Chinese姞
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Chinese interpretation is “one who is organized.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Chinese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1967. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ji through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 414
- 163 boys · 251 girls
- Most popular year
- 1991
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1999. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,235 as a first name in 2020; 6,436 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ji’s family of names
In English usage, Ji as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Chi. In English usage, Ji as a surname was borrowed from the Chinese form 姞.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 33
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- 姞source · Chinese
- Kitequivalent
- Chidoublet · English
- Keiequivalent
- Jeequivalent
- Katequivalent
- Zhiequivalent
- Ruequivalent
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People named Ji
- Liu BowenChinese philosopher and politician (1311–1375)
- Gan JiChinese Taoist priest (died 200)101–200
- Ji Wallacegymnastborn 1977
- Ji, King of Zhoualso known as Ji Li
- Li JiChinese archaeologist (1896-1979)
- Wang JiChinese poet585–644
- Zhao JipingChinese composerborn 1945
- Lu JiHan dynasty scholar and official (188-219)187–219
- Ma JiChinese xiangsheng actor1934–2006
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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