Comments for the name Airi

Airi Suzuki (âľ ÛÀí) is a Japanese pop singer and actress, currently a member of ¡ãC-ute and Hello! Project Kids. Suzuki is the daughter of the professional golfer T¨­ru Suzuki.

I like this name. It's sweet. I have always wondered if Chinese names can be Japanese too, but I have never heard a Chinese name on a Japanese girl or boy and also vice versa, so I guess it's not possible, but either way, I still like this name, and I'm pretty sure this is only a girl's name, and that is the only gender I would even consider using it on is a little girl. I can't picture a little boy with this name, but who knows? Maybe it's possible, maybe it's not. But oh well, I like it for a little girl.

This is also a Finnish female name. :)

This is so sweet. Close to my own name, Siri, but I find this prettier.

Hoshina Airi is the name of the protagonist in the manga "MeruPuri" by Matsuri Hino.

There are multiple other kanji possibilities to go with this name. Kind of a more recent name rather than an old standard.

Miyavi Ishihara's daughter (born July 29, 2009) has this name as her Japanese name! ^_^

Something more about Miyavi's daughter's name: her name is actually Lovelie (from the English word "lovely"), but it is written with the same characters as Airi - 愛理. 愛 means "love" and 理 means "reason". Usually, foreign words and names in Japanese are written in katakana, but I guess Miyavi and Melody wanted their daughter's name to have a literal meaning in kanji. Normally, 愛理 would be read as "Airi". And Japanese people find the English words "love" and "lovely" very hard to pronounce - the closest sounds they have are "rabu" and "raburi". I really hope Miyavi can pronounce English well, so her name actually sounds like "Lovely" when he says it, not "Raburi". :)

Japanese pronunciation: ah-EE-ree, or AH-ee-ree
English pronunciation (the one that flows the most should an English-speaker say the name): IE-ree.

Airi is also a Finnish name.

Pronounced eye-ree.

If used in nickname-form-- "Airi" is unbelievably tender and sweet. While, yes, it may have it's roots as Japanese I find it acceptable to use in other cultures (diminutive, of course). I certainly would consider it as a shortened everyday call of the Italian "Aurelia." The pronunciation... Perhaps I would Italian-ize it to "Ah-Ee-Ree"? A simple "Air-Ee" could function, though.

The name Airi can mean either "Beloved Jasmine" or "Beloved Reason".