Ari

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Indonesian: a male given name from Old Javanese

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈari/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ari is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country, where it is the 76th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 195(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 6.6K
  • USUnited States1 in 16K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ari itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Japan (inferred from the name graph)

≈170,000 named Eri, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
258 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 195 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AriLatin(measured from records)
애리Hangul(measured from records)
ΑρηGreek(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Eri in JP Japan and 애리 in KR South Korea.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Côte d’Ivoire Kwa: place/people name; also Germanic 'eagle' and Hebrew 'lion'

Sources 1

  • African Names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Ari is read(measured from records)

Ari is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Indonesian35%

    a male given name from Old Javanese

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Javanese form of adik

    as a wordrecorded as Malaykaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English20%

    A male given name from Hebrew, of Jewish usage, variant of Arieh (also transcribed as Aryeh, Arye). Ari derives directly from Hebrew: אֲרִי (arí, “lion”); compare Yiddish: לייב (leyb, “Leib”), English: Leo, Leon, French: Léo, Léon, Czech: Lev, Polish: Lew, Russian: Лев (Lev), and Ukrainian: Лев (Lev).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    long., Ethiopia; pers. name

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Portuguese18%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Ari in Portuguese.

  • Spanish8.7%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Ari in Spanish.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ari counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ari is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
JP Japan#76≈170,000 est.≈1 in 753—Eri146
BR Brazil#75531,9551 in 6.6K44KAri142
FI Finland#24228,5451 in 19535KAri27
US United States—21,0381 in 16K16KAri258
KR South Korea#914≈9,200 est.≈1 in 5.7K—애리40
SE Sweden—1,9581 in 5.2K2K—17
IS Iceland—6651 in 527665——

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ari is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Singapore

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Ari, ARi', Ǻri, Arî, Àrï

  • Finnish given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Sweden, Spain

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Ärï, Arî, Ári, Àri, Ärî

  • English given name28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Finland, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Norwegian

    Also written Arí, Arî, Ári, ARi', Aari

  • Hindi given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Finland, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Ãrí, Ãri, Arï, Āřï, Åri

  • Turkish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Finland, Syria

    Languages: Turkish, Turkmen, Azerbaijani

    Also written Ãrį, Ãrï, Arì, Åri

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Arí, Arī, Arî

  • French given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Finland, Spain

    Also written Ãrï, Ârî, Arï, Ärî, Arì

  • Hebrew surname21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Netherlands, Canada

    Also written ארי, Arie, קרי, ערי, אירי

72 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ari is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Côte d’Ivoire Kwa: place/people name; also Germanic 'eagle' and Hebrew 'lion'

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • eagle

    as a nameAfrican Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Ari Handel, b. 1957Ari Fleischer, b. 1960Ari Folman, b. 1962Ari Behn, b. 1972Ari Sandel, b. 1974Ari Wegner, b. 1984Ari, b. 1985Lauv, b. 1994Ari Ólafsson, b. 1998
  • Ari Handelb. 1957USAmerican neuroscientist
  • Ari Fleischerb. 1960USAmerican media consultant (born 1960)
  • Ari Folmanb. 1962ILIsraeli film director, screenwriter, animator and film score composer (b. 1962)
  • Ari Behnb. 1972NONorwegian author (1972–2019)
  • Ari Sandelb. 1974USAmerican filmmaker
  • Ari Wegnerb. 1984AUUK-based cinematographer from Australia
  • Arib. 1985BRBrazilian-born Russian footballer (born 1985)
  • Lauvb. 1994USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician
  • Ari Ólafssonb. 1998ISIcelandic singer
  • Ari CohenCACanadian actor

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHalo Ari,Hi Ari, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 101 sources across 46 countries.

Official registers attesting Ari
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020336#64,041
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010291#67,747
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000183#93,006

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Ari a male or female name?
Ari is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Ari mean?
In Indonesian, a male given name from Old Javanese
Where does the name Ari come from?
Côte d’Ivoire Kwa: place/people name; also Germanic 'eagle' and Hebrew 'lion' Recorded by African Names.
What are other forms of the name Ari?
In the etymology graph, Aarne is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Ari?
A machine transcription gives /ˈari/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
How common is the name Ari?
In Brazil, the national register counted 31,955 people named Ari in 2022, about 1 in 6.6 thousand residents.
How common is Ari compared with other names?
In Japan, Ari is the 76th most common given name of 366,905 given names recorded there.
In which country does Ari have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 167 thousand people named Eri in Japan, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Ari most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ari is densest in Finland — about 1 in 195 people — even though Japan holds more of our records for it.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ari” — the 76th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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