Entry № 6475 · Welsh origin

Mari Mari — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAH-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Beloved; of the sea"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "beloved; of the sea".

Mari is the Welsh form of Mary — long beloved, tied to devotion and to the sea. It is warm, classic and rooted.

Beloved; of the sea — a Welsh name.

The name in its native script.

Mari
Transliteration
Mari
Pronunciation
/ ˈma.ri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mari stands.

Mari 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.

Maris before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Mari.

The number behind Mari.

5

The Seeker

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