Airi
Appearance
Gender | Female |
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Origin | |
Word/name | Japanese |
Meaning | Different meanings depending on the kanji used |
Gender | Female |
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Name day | 2 December (Estonia)[1] 4 December (Finland) |
Origin | |
Word/name | Estonian, Finnish |
Meaning | Messenger, herald |
Other names | |
Related names | Aire, Aira[1] |
Airi is a feminine given name used in Estonian, Finnish and Japanese. The Japanese name can be written as 愛里, 愛李, 愛莉, 愛理, 愛梨, 藍梨 or あいり in hiragana.[2] In Finnish and Estonian, the name is derived from airut, meaning messenger or herald. As of 1 January 2022, Airi is the 240th most popular feminine given name in Estonia.[3]
Notable Japanese people with the name include:
- Airi Eino (永野 愛理, born 1993), Japanese voice actress and singer
- Airi Furukawa (古川 愛李, born 1989), Japanese illustrator and former singer
- Airi Hatakeyama (畠山 愛理, born 1994), Japanese rhythmic gymnast
- Airi Kinoshita (木下 あいり, 1998–2005), Japanese murder victim
- Airi Matsui (松井 愛莉, born 1996), Japanese model, actress, and former singer
- Airi Miyabe (宮部 藍梨, born 1998), Japanese volleyball player
- Airi Nakajima (中島 愛里, born 1990), Japanese actress and gravure idol
- Airi Shimizu (清水 あいり, born 1992), Japanese gravure idol, actress and television personality
- Airi Suzuki (鈴木 愛理, born 1994), Japanese singer, actress, model and radio personality
- Airi Suzuki (violinist) (鈴木 愛理, born 1989), Japanese violinist
- Airi Taira (平 愛梨, born 1984), Japanese actress
- Airi Tanigawa (谷川 愛梨, born 1995), Japanese singer
- Airi Toriyama (通山 愛里, born 1989), Japanese actress and singer
- AiRI, Japanese singer
Other people
[edit]- Airi L, British singer
- Airi Mikkelä (born 1993), Finnish badminton player
Fictional characters
[edit]- Airi (アイリ), a character in the media franchise Queen's Blade
- Airi Ban, a character in the video game Devil Survivor 2
- Airi Hayashida, a character in the anime series Wake Up, Girls!
- Airi Masaki (柾木 アイリ), a character in the anime series Tenchi Muyo!
- Airi Momoi, a character from the game Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage!
- Airi Nogami, a character in the tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Den-O
- Airi Sakura, a character in the light novel series Classroom of the Elite
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Estonian Name Days". Behind the Name. 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- ^ Babynamescube
- ^ "Eesnime Airi statistika". Eesti statistika (in Estonian). 1 January 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2022.