Eri

Where Eri comes from

From Japanese えり.
— Wiktionary's entry for Eri
  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1972
    First appearance
    #8,292 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2020
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2024
    Peak, #3,277
    48 babies named Eri — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Japanese.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.