Airi
title: "Airi" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["feminine-given-names", "japanese-feminine-given-names", "finnish-feminine-given-names", "estonian-feminine-given-names"] topic_path: "geography/japan" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airi" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Airi |
| gender | Female |
| meaning | Different meanings depending on the kanji used |
| origin | Japanese |
| :: |
| name = Airi | image = | image_size = | caption = | pronunciation = | gender = Female | meaning = Different meanings depending on the kanji used | region = | language = | origin = Japanese | alternative spelling = | nickname = | variant forms = | related names = | name day = | derived = | popularity = | footnotes = | name = Airi | image = | image_size = | caption = | pronunciation = | gender = Female | meaning = Messenger, herald | region = | language = | origin = Estonian, Finnish | alternative spelling = | nickname = | variant forms = | related names = Aire, Aira | name day = 2 December (Estonia) 4 December (Finland) | derived = | popularity = | footnotes = Airi is a feminine given name used in Estonian, Finnish and Japanese. The Japanese name can be written as 愛里, 愛李, 愛莉, 愛理, 愛梨, 藍梨 or あいり in hiragana. In Finnish and Estonian, the name is derived from airut, meaning messenger or herald. As of 1 January 2022, Airi is the 240th most popular feminine given name in Estonia.
Notable Japanese people with the name include:
- Airi Eino, Japanese voice actress and singer
- Airi Furukawa, Japanese illustrator and former singer
- Airi Hatakeyama, Japanese rhythmic gymnast
- Airi Kinoshita, Japanese murder victim
- Airi Matsui, Japanese model, actress, and former singer
- Airi Miyabe, Japanese volleyball player
- Airi Nakajima, Japanese actress and gravure idol
- Airi Shimizu, Japanese gravure idol, actress and television personality
- , Japanese gravure idol and tallent
- Airi Suzuki, Japanese singer, actress, model and radio personality
- Airi Suzuki (violinist), Japanese violinist
- Airi Taira, Japanese actress
- Airi Tanigawa, Japanese singer
- Airi Toriyama, Japanese actress and singer
- AiRI, Japanese singer
Other people
- Airi L, British singer
- Airi Mikkelä (born 1993), Finnish badminton player
Fictional characters
- Airi, a character in the media franchise Queen's Blade
- Airi Ban, a character in the video game Devil Survivor 2
- Airi Hayashida, a character in the anime series Wake Up, Girls!
- Airi Masaki, a character in the anime series Tenchi Muyo!
- Airi Momoi, a character from the game Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage!
- Airi Nogami, a character in the tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Den-O
- Airi Sakura, a character in the light novel series Classroom of the Elite
- Airi Kurimura, a character in the role-playing video game Blue Archive
- Airi Amano, a character in the D4DJ franchise
References
References
- (2017). "Estonian Name Days". Behind the Name.
- [https://www.babynamescube.com/airi-name-meaning Babynamescube]
- (1 January 2022). "Eesnime Airi statistika". Eesti statistika.
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