Eri (given name)
Appearance
Gender | Female |
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Origin | |
Word/name | Japanese |
Meaning | different meanings depending on the kanji |
Other names | |
Related names | Eriko, Erika, Rie |
Eri (えり, エリ) is a common feminine Japanese given name.
Possible writings
Eri can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
- 恵理, "blessing, reason"
- 絵里, "picture, hometown"
- 絵梨, "picture, pear"
- 絵理, "picture, reason"
- 江里, "inlet, hometown"
- 恵里, "blessing, hometown"
- 恵利, "blessing, profit"
- 江利, "inlet, profit"
- 恵梨, "blessing, pear"
- 枝里, "branch, hometown"
- 英梨, "excel, pear"
- 英里, "excel, hometown"
- 愛利, "love, clever"
- 愛理, “loving reason”
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
People
- Eri Fukatsu (絵里, born 1973), Japanese actress
- Eri Ishida (born 1960), Japanese actress
- Eri Itō (恵里), Japanese vocalist
- Eri Kamei (絵里, born 1988), member of the Japanese pop group Morning Musume
- Eri Kawai (英里, 1965–2008), Japanese singer
- Eri Kikuchi (born 1965), 1980s Japanese AV idol
- Eri Kitamura (英梨, born 1987), Japanese voice actress and singer
- Eri Murakawa (絵梨, born 1987), Japanese actress
- Eri Natori (名取 英理, born 1985), Japanese speed skater
- Eri Nitta (恵利, born 1968), Japanese idol and singer
- Eri Nobuchika (エリ, born 1985), Japanese pop singer and songwriter
- Eri Saito (恵理 斉藤, born 1973), Japanese voice actress
- Eri Shingyōji (恵里, born 1974), Japanese rock singer
- Eri Tokunaga (born 1962), Japanese politician and former TV reporter
- Eri Tokunaga (actress) (born 1988), Japanese actress
- Eri Yamada (恵里, born 1984), Japanese softball player
- Eri Yamaguchi (衛里, born 1973), Japanese long-distance runner
- Eri Yamanoi (絵理, born 1978), Japanese former freestyle swimmer
Fictional characters
- Eri (絵理), one of Kagome's 3 classmates in the anime and manga series InuYasha
- Eri Minami, Yuuta's step-mother in the game Persona 4
- Eri Kasamoto (エリ), a playable character in the game series Metal Slug
- Eri Kisaki, Ran's mother in the manga series Detective Conan
- Eri Sawachika (愛理), in the anime and manga series School Rumble
- Eri Takigawa (エリ), in the Japanese television drama Last Friends
- Eri, in the manga adaptation of Candy Boy
- Eri Ninamori, in the anime series FLCL
- Eri Asai, in Haruki Murakami's novel After Dark
- Eri Shina, in the anime Angel Beats!
- Eri Ayase, one of the nine main characters from the anime Love Live! School Idol Project
- Eri, in the anime and manga Boku no Hero Academia
- Eri Karan, a character from Digimon Universe: Appli Monsters