Entry № 3035 · Japanese origin

Eri Eri — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EH-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Blessed, picture"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Japanese)

A name that means "blessed, picture".

Eri (絵理) combines the Japanese e (picture, blessing) and ri (reason, jasmine) — meaning "blessed with reason" or "painted jasmine." Multiple kanji combinations.

Eri Kitamura (born 1987) is the Japanese voice actress; Eri Yoshida (born 1992) was the first female professional baseball player in modern Japan.

Blessed. The Japanese.

The name in its native script.

絵理
Transliteration
Eri
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛ.ri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Eri stands.

Eri does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Eris before her.

Real people
Eri Kitamura
Japanese voice actress.
born 1987
Eri Yoshida
Japanese baseball player.
born 1992
In fiction
Eri
Common in anime.

Names connected to Eri.

The number behind Eri.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Eri reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.