Eri (given name) explained
Eri |
Gender: | Female |
Meaning: | different meanings depending on the kanji |
Origin: | Japanese |
Related Names: | Eriko, Erika, Rie, Andrea |
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 with the name
- 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
- , Japanese swimmer
- Eri Kitamura (英梨, born 1987), Japanese voice actress and singer
- Eri Murakawa (絵梨, born 1987), Japanese actress
- , 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 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 Uchinaga (内永 枝利,[1] [2] born 2000) stage name Giselle, Japanese-Korean member of South Korean girl group Aespa
- , Japanese softball player
- Eri Yamaguchi (衛里, born 1973), Japanese long-distance runner
- Eri Yamanoi (絵理, born 1978), Japanese former freestyle swimmer
- Eri Yanetani (born 1984), Japanese snowboarder
- , Japanese baseball player
- , Japanese voice actress
Non-Japanese people with the name Eri
Fictional characters
- Eri (絵理), a character in the manga series InuYasha
- Eri (My Hero Academia), a character in the manga series My Hero Academia
- 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 Kasuga, a character from anime and manga Chimpui
- Eri Kisaki, Ran's mother in the manga series Detective Conan
- Eri Sawachika (愛理), in the anime and manga series School Rumble
- Eri Miyanoshita (宮ノ下), a character in manga series Haikyū!!.
- 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 Karan, a character from
Notes and References
- Web site: 【全文】GISELLE(aespa)、"不適切な口パク"に謝罪…流れる曲に合わせて口ずさんだ単語に指摘殺到. Yahoo Japan. ja. https://web.archive.org/web/20211206033510/https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/d644e4a9076c8af054ff3eb9c5627424f6f9a0ec. December 6, 2021. October 25, 2021. 2021-11-16. live.
- Web site: aespa. Apple Music China. chinese. https://web.archive.org/web/20220315121025/https://music.apple.com/cn/artist/aespa/1540251304. March 15, 2022. March 15, 2022. live. Giselle (内永 枝利/金枝利).