Entry № 4975 · Swahili origin

Johari Johari — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ joh-HAH-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Swahili
Meaning
"Jewel, gemstone"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Swahili)

A name that means "jewel, gemstone".

Johari is the Swahili word for "jewel" or "gemstone" — from the Arabic jawhar.

Johari Window is a famous psychological model — named for psychologists Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham.

Jewel. The Swahili gemstone.

The name in its native script.

Johari
Transliteration
Johari
Pronunciation
/ dʒoʊˈhɑː.ri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Johari stands.

Johari does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Joharis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Johari
Common in Swahili fiction.

Names connected to Johari.

The number behind Johari.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Johari reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.