Jari
[ˈjɑːri]Meaning
short form of Jalmari; from Old Norse jara, "battle"
Background Story
Jari is a short form of Jalmari, and in Old Norse it comes from jara, meaning "battle". The Finnish name is generally credited to the author Jalmari Finne, whose godson, born in 1937, was likely the first to bear it, and its popularity was helped by Aino Räsänen's 1940s novels, which had a protagonist called Jari. It is also rarely used as a pet form of Jarl, and is used in Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, Old Norse and Swedish.
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