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
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Grammatical form
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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

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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.