Eri (えり, エリ) is a common feminine Japanese given name.
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.
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
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
