Pronunciation | Mah-ree |
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Gender | Female |
Word/name | Japanese, Hebrew |
Meaning | Different depending on the kanji |
Region of origin | Japanese, Norwegian, Swedish, Estonian |
Related names |
Mariko Mary |
Mari is a feminine given name in the Breton, Japanese, Estonian, 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 Japanese it appears as Mari (まり, マリ?), or can be written using different kanji characters so that it means, respectively:
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.