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: The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
 * 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"
 * 愛理, “loving reason”

People with the name
Non-Japanese people with the name Eri
 * Eri Fukatsu (絵里, born 1973), Japanese actress
 * Eri Ishida (born 1960), Japanese actress
 * Eri Itō (恵里), Japanese vocalist
 * Eri Kamei (絵里, born 1988), member of the Japanese pop group Morning Musume
 * Eri Kawai (英里, 1965–2008), Japanese singer
 * Eri Kikuchi (born 1965), 1980s Japanese AV idol
 * Eri Kimura (木村 衣里), Japanese swimmer
 * Eri Kitamura (英梨, born 1987), Japanese voice actress and singer
 * Eri Murakawa (絵梨, born 1987), Japanese actress
 * Eri Natori (名取 英理), Japanese speed skater
 * Eri Nitta (恵利, born 1968), Japanese idol and singer
 * Eri Nobuchika (エリ, born 1985), Japanese pop singer and songwriter
 * Eri Sasaki (佐々木 恵里)
 * Eri Sendai (仙台 エリ), Japanese voice actress
 * Eri Shingyōji (恵里, born 1974), Japanese rock singer
 * Eri Tokunaga (born 1962), Japanese politician and former TV reporter
 * Eri Tokunaga (actress) (born 1988), Japanese actress
 * Eri Uchinaga (内永 枝利, born 2000) stage name Giselle, Japanese-Korean member of South Korean girl group Aespa
 * Eri Yamada (山田 恵里), Japanese softball player
 * Eri Yamaguchi (衛里, born 1973), Japanese long-distance runner
 * Eri Yamanoi (絵理, born 1978), Japanese former freestyle swimmer
 * Eri Yanetani (born 1984), Japanese snowboarder
 * Eri Yoshida (吉田 えり), Japanese baseball player
 * Eri Yukimura (幸村 恵理), Japanese voice actress
 * Eri Cahyadi (born 1977) Indonesian politician, incumbent Mayor of Surabaya (2020–)

Fictional characters

 * Eri (絵理), a character in the manga series InuYasha
 * Eri (My Hero Academia), a character in the manga series My Hero Academia
 * Eri Minami, Yuuta's step-mother in the game Persona 4
 * Eri Kasamoto (エリ), a playable character in the game series Metal Slug
 * Eri Kasuga, a character from anime and manga Chimpui
 * Eri Kisaki, Ran's mother in the manga series Detective Conan
 * Eri Sawachika (愛理), in the anime and manga series School Rumble
 * Eri Miyanoshita (宮ノ下), a character in manga series Haikyū!!.
 * 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
 * Eri Karan, a character from Digimon Universe: Appli Monsters