Mari
PronunciationMah-ree
GenderFemale
Language(s)Japanese, Latin
Origin
Word/nameJapanese
MeaningDifferent depending on the kanji
Region of originJapanese, Norwegian, Swedish, Hungarian, Estonian, Armenian
Other names
Related namesMariko
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's 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 Mari (まり, マリ), 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
  • Mari Horikawa (堀川 真理, born 1992), 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
  • Mari Shiraki (白木 万理, born 1937), 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

See also

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