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Mari (given name)

Pronunciation Mah-ree
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.


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