Eri (given name)

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"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People

• Eri Nobuchika (エリ, born 1985), Japanese pop singer and songwriter
• Eri Kamei (絵里, born 1988), member of the Japanese pop group Morning Musume
• Eri Fukatsu (絵里, born 1973), Japanese actress
• Eri Itō (恵里), Japanese vocalist
• Eri Kawai (英里, 1965–2008), Japanese singer
• Eri Murakawa (絵梨, born 1987), Japanese actress
• Eri Yamanoi (絵理, born 1978), Japanese former freestyle swimmer
• Eri Nitta (恵利, born 1968), Japanese idol and singer
• Eri Kitamura (英梨, born 1987), Japanese voice actress and singer
• Eri Shingyōji (恵里, born 1974), Japanese rock singer
• Eri Yamada (恵里, born 1984), Japanese softball player
• Eri Yamaguchi (衛里, born 1973), Japanese long-distance runner
• Eri Kikuchi (born 1965), 1980s Japanese AV idol
• Eri Ishida (born 1960), Japanese actress

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 Shin Megami Tensei: 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