Given name & surname
Jie
“one who is pure; chaste”
Jie is used as a given name and a surname. One Chinese interpretation is “one who is pure; chaste.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Chinese interpretation is “one who is pure; chaste.”
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 1996. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 104
- 86 boys · 18 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 12 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 6 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 2000. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 8,648 as a first name in 2020; 288 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.
Jie’s family of names
In Indonesian usage, Jie as a surname has a related form in DJIE.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jie
- Zhang JieChinese novelist and writer1937–2022
- Wang JieChinese beach volleyball playerborn 1983
- Ke JieChinese go playerborn 1997
- Empress CaoChinese Han dynasty empress (197-260)200–237
- Yao JieChinese-Dutch badminton playerborn 1977
- Cao JieChinese Han dynasty official (died 181)101–181
- Kong JieChinese Go playerborn 1982
- Chen JieChinese swimmerborn 1995
- Sun JieChinese footballerborn 1991
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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