Mari (given name) explained
| Mari |
| Pronunciation: | Mah-ree |
| Gender: | Female |
| Region: | Japanese, Norwegian, Swedish, Hungarian, Estonian, Armenian |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Language2: | Latin |
| Origin: | Japanese |
| Related Names: | Mariko
Mary |
Mari is a feminine given name in the Breton, Japanese, Armenian,Estonian, Georgian, Hungarian, Finnish, Welsh, Swedish and Norwegian languages. It is also a devotional given name in Tamil. It can be seen as a cognate of Mary in Danish, Finnish, Norwegian or Swedish. In Estonian it was shortened variety of proper names like Marianne; in Estonian it is often perceived as a derivation of "mari" (berry). In the countries of Georgia and Armenia, Mari is a shortened version of the name Mariam. In Armenia, Mari (Մարի) was the 2nd-most-common female given name of 2013.
In Japanese it appears as, or can be written using different kanji characters so that it means, respectively:
- 真理, "truth"
- 万里, "long distance"
- 茉莉, "jasmine"
- 麻里, "hemp, village"
- 麻莉, "hemp, white jasmine"
- 愛莉, "love, white jasmine"(This kanji can also be read as Airi.)
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
People
- Saint Mari, a 1st-century saint of the Church of the East and several other denominations
- Mari of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, Patriarch of the Church of the East (987–999)
- Mari ibn Suleiman (12th century), historian
- Mari Abel (born 1975), Estonian actress
- Mari Akasaka (真理, born 1964), Japanese novelist
- Mari Alkatiri (born 1949), Prime Minister of East Timor from 2002 to 2006
- Mari Amachi (真理, born 1951), Japanese singer and actress
- Mari Blanchard (1923–1970), American actress
- Mari Ellis (1913-2015), Welsh writer and women's rights activist
- Mari Hamada (麻里, born 1962), Japanese rock singer
- Mari Hamada (actress) (マリ, born 1968), Japanese singer and actress
- Mari Hanafusa (まり, born 1974), Japanese actress in Takarazuka Revue
- Mari Henmi (マリ, born 1950), Japanese singer and actress
- , Japanese volleyball player
- Mari Hoshino (真里, born 1981), Japanese actress
- Mari Hulman George (1934–2018), American auto racing executive
- Mari Iijima (真理, born 1963), Japanese singer-songwriter
- Mari Jászai (1850–1926), Hungarian actress
- Mari Kalkun (born 1986), Estonian singer and musician
- Mari Kurismaa (born 1956), Estonian artist and architect
- Mari Kimura (木村 まり, born 1962), Japanese violinist and composer
- Mari Kinsigo (1946–2014), Estonian chess Woman FIDE Master
- Mari Kiviniemi (born 1968), Finnish politician and former Prime Minister of Finland
- Mari Klaup (born 1990), Estonian heptathlete
- Mari Kodama (麻里, born 1967), Japanese pianist
- Mari Kotani (真理, born 1958), Japanese science fiction critic
- Mari Lill (born 1945), Estonian actress
- Mari Mahr (born 1941) is a Hungarian-British photographer
- Mari Mashiba (摩利, born 1959), Japanese voice actress
- Mari Matsuda (born 1956), American lawyer, activist, and law professor
- Mari Mori (茉莉, 1903–1987), Japanese author, daughter of novelist Mori Ōgai
- Mari Motohashi (麻里, born 1986), Japanese curler
- Mari Must (1920–2008), Estonian linguist
- Mari Natsuki (マリ, born 1952), Japanese singer, dancer, and actress
- Mari Ness (born c 1971) is an American poet and author
- Mari Ozaki (まり, born 1975), Japanese long-distance runner
- Mari Ozawa (真理), Japanese manga artist
- Mari Possa (born 1980), Salvadoran actress
- Mari Saat (born 1947), Estonian writer
- Mari Shimizu (マリ, born 1936), Japanese voice actress
- , Japanese actress
- Mari Shirato (真理, born 1958), Japanese actress
- Mari Tarand (1941–2020), Estonian journalist and radio personality
- Mari Törőcsik (1935–2021), Hungarian stage and film actress
- Mari Trini (1947–2009), Spanish singer songwriter
- Mari Jose Urruzola (1940–2006), Spanish educator, feminist, and writer
- Mari Wilson (born 1954), English pop and jazz singer
- Mari Yaguchi (真里, born 1983), former member of the Japanese idol group Morning Musume
- Mari Yonehara (万里, 1950–2006), Japanese translator, essayist, non-fiction writer and novelist
Fictional characters
- Mari Iyagi, in My Beautiful Girl, Mari
- , in the anime series Yuri!!! on Ice
- , in the manga and anime series Prison School
- Mari Jiwe McCabe, also known as Vixen, a DC Comics character
- , in the Japanese animated film series Rebuild of Evangelion
- , in the anime series Love Live! Sunshine!!
- , in the anime series A Place Further than the Universe
- , in the manga and anime series Rainbow Days
- , in the light novel series The Irregular at Magic High School
- , in the tokusatsu television series Kamen Rider 555
- , in the tokusatsu television series Kamen Rider Fourze
- , in the manga series Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs
- Maari, in the Tamil action comedy Maari
- MARI, in the psychological horror RPG Omori
- Mari, in the side-scrolling MMORPG Grand Chase
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