Eri

given name · Japanese · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Eri is a given name, most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is the 75th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Japanese and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Rōmaji transcription of えり.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 195◐
  • JPJapan1 in 1.2K
  • KRSouth Korea1 in 5K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈81K ●

across 12 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
247 ●

124K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 195 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

AriLatin · Portuguese●597K records
애리Hangul · Korean●10K records
ΑρηGreek · Greek●6 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ari in BR Brazil, FI Finland, US United States and 11 more, Arie in NL Netherlands, 애리 in KR South Korea and Aeri in AU Australia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Rōmaji transcription of えり

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Eri is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
JP Japan#7558,67353K rec.——Eri138
BR Brazil#67931,955△15K rec.1 in 6.6K44KAri139
FI Finland—28,545△340 rec.1 in 19535KAri31
US United States—15,63612K rec.1 in 21K16KAri247
KR South Korea#98912,5556.6K rec.——애리39
MX Mexico—11,8949.8K rec.——Ari131
PE Peru—6,10416K rec.——Ari39
AR Argentina—5,1613.4K rec.—321Ari71
SE Sweden—1,958△37 rec.1 in 5.2K2K—17
IS Iceland—1,250—1 in 2811.3K——
CL Chile—820222 rec.—2Ari45
UY Uruguay#684747451 rec.—1Ari31

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Japanese62K44%
  • Portuguese27K19%
  • Indonesian16K12%
  • Spanish11K8%
  • English10K8%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Japanese61,68744%
Portuguese26,73419%
Indonesian16,10812%
Spanish11,1888%
English10,4328%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Eri is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name19K records spelled Eri7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Italy

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Eri, Eŕi, Èrí, Èŕi

  • English given name14K records spelled Eri17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Éri, Ẹrí, Erì, Ëri, Erī

  • a separate given name2.3K records spelled Eri3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom

    Also written Éri, Eri̲

  • Hindi given name1.4K records spelled Eri3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Malaysia, Italy

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Éri

  • French given name1.2K records spelled Eri9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Côte d’Ivoire

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Éri, Érî, Êri, Ëŕí, Èrî

  • Turkish given name771 records spelled Eri6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States

    Also written ̧eri, Erie, Erì, Êri

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Eri is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Watcher, Awake, or Protector

    as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database

  • In English, Biblical name

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • ‘Blessed prize’.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Spanish, Premio bendito

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Spanish, second-person singular voseo present indicative of ser; you are

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

020406019802000202048 · 2024

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Eri in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1963–2025
Yearrecords
19635
19655
19725
19765
19798
198010
19819
19826
19837
19846
19857
198614
198712
198813
198914
199015
199110
199224
199310
199419
199515
199615
199713
19986
19999
20008
200113
20029
20039
200413
200516
200613
20077
200814
200914
201011
201110
201211
20138
20147
201511
20165
20187
20199
202014
202130
202247
202335
202448
202536

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 50 years between 1963–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Eriko Watanabe, b. 1955Eri Ishida, b. 1960Eri Kawai, b. 1965Eri Nitta, b. 1968Eri Ōno, b. 1971Eri Fukatsu, b. 1973Eri Kitamura, b. 1987Eri Murakawa, b. 1987Eri Kamei, b. 1988Eri Yoshida, b. 1992
  • Eriko Watanabeb. 1955JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actress, stage director and playwright
  • Eri Ishidab. 1960JPJapanese actress
  • Eri Kawaib. 1965JPJapanese singer-songwriter (1965-2008)
  • Eri Nittab. 1968JPJapanese former singer
  • Eri Ōnob. 1971JPJapanese voice actress
  • Eri Fukatsub. 1973JPJapanese actress, singer
  • Eri Kitamurab. 1987JPJapanese voice actress and singer
  • Eri Murakawab. 1987JPJapanese actress
  • Eri Kameib. 1988JPJapanese singer, actress and model (former Morning Musume member)
  • Eri Yoshidab. 1992JPJapanese baseball player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 59 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Eri
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.9K#6,091
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.6K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.3K#6,012
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2K#7,480
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020875#7,480
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—360#1,109
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—272#6,012
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—196#8,073
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—181#2,266
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—165#20,284
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—79#9,969
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—64#7,200

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 363 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Eri?
We estimate roughly 81 thousand people bear Eri (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Eri have the most bearers?
Eri is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled eri.
Where is Eri most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Eri is densest in Finland — about 1 in 195 people — even though Japan holds more of our records for it.
How common is Eri compared with other names?
In Japan, Eri is the 75th most common given name of 355,102 given names recorded there.
Is Eri a male or female name?
Eri is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Eri mean?
Recorded meaning: Rōmaji transcription of えり
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Eri” — the 75th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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