Airi
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{{Infobox given name
| name = Airi
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| gender = Female
| meaning = Messenger, herald
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| origin = Estonian, Finnish
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| related names = Aire, Aira
| name day = 2 December (Estonia){{cite web |url=https://www.behindthename.com/namedays/country/estonia|title=Estonian Name Days|date=2017|work=Behind the Name|accessdate=14 February 2022}}
4 December (Finland)
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Airi is a feminine given name used in Estonian, Finnish and Japanese. The Japanese name can be written as 愛里, 愛李, 愛莉, 愛理, 愛梨, 藍梨 or あいり in hiragana.[https://www.babynamescube.com/airi-name-meaning Babynamescube]
In Finnish and Estonian, the name is derived from airut, meaning messenger or herald. As of 1 January 2022, Airi is the 240th most popular feminine given name in Estonia.{{cite web |url=https://www.stat.ee/nimed/Airi|title=Eesnime Airi statistika|date=1 January 2022|work=Eesti statistika|accessdate=1 March 2022|language=et}}
Notable Japanese people with the name include:
- {{Nihongo|Airi Eino|永野 愛理||born 1993}}, Japanese voice actress and singer
- {{Nihongo|Airi Furukawa|古川 愛李||born 1989}}, Japanese illustrator and former singer
- {{Nihongo|Airi Hatakeyama|畠山 愛理||born 1994}}, Japanese rhythmic gymnast
- {{Nihongo|Airi Kinoshita|木下 あいり||1998–2005}}, Japanese murder victim
- {{Nihongo|Airi Matsui|松井 愛莉||born 1996}}, Japanese model, actress, and former singer
- {{Nihongo|Airi Miyabe|宮部 藍梨||born 1998}}, Japanese volleyball player
- {{Nihongo|Airi Nakajima|中島 愛里||born 1990}}, Japanese actress and gravure idol
- {{Nihongo|Airi Shimizu|清水 あいり||born 1992}}, Japanese gravure idol, actress and television personality
- {{Nihongo|{{ill|Airi Shikawa|ja|白川愛梨}}|白川愛梨||born 1999}}, Japanese gravure idol and tallent
- {{Nihongo|Airi Suzuki|鈴木 愛理||born 1994}}, Japanese singer, actress, model and radio personality
- {{Nihongo|Airi Suzuki (violinist)|鈴木 愛理||born 1989}}, Japanese violinist
- {{Nihongo|Airi Taira|平 愛梨||born 1984}}, Japanese actress
- {{Nihongo|Airi Tanigawa|谷川 愛梨||born 1995}}, Japanese singer
- {{Nihongo|Airi Toriyama|通山 愛里||born 1989}}, Japanese actress and singer
- AiRI, Japanese singer
Other people
- Airi L, British singer
- Airi Mikkelä (born 1993), Finnish badminton player
Fictional characters
- {{Nihongo|Airi|アイリ}}, a character in the media franchise Queen's Blade
- Airi Ban, a character in the video game Devil Survivor 2
- Airi Hayashida, a character in the anime series Wake Up, Girls!
- {{Nihongo|Airi Masaki|柾木 アイリ}}, a character in the anime series Tenchi Muyo!
- Airi Momoi, a character from the game Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage!
- Airi Nogami, a character in the tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Den-O
- Airi Sakura, a character in the light novel series Classroom of the Elite
- Airi Kurimura, a character in the role-playing video game Blue Archive
- Airi Sakura, a character in the light novel series Classroom of the Elite
- Airi Amano, a character in the D4DJ franchise
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