Ari (name)

Ari is a given name in many languages and cultures, for both men and women. It also may be a nickname for a wide variety of unrelated names.

Etymology

Albanian

In the Albanian language, "Ari" means "gold" and is used as a male name .^[1]

Badaga

Ari in the Badaga language, "Ari" ("A:ri") has a literal meaning of "sun-like" and is used as a male name, sometimes changed to "Harry" in the case of converts to Christianity.^[2]

Finnic languages

Ari is thought to be a Finnic form of Adrian.^[3]

Greek

Ari or Aris is a common shortened version of the Greek names Aristotle, Ariadne, Ariana, Arietta, Aristides, Aristarchus, Aristomenes, Aristobulos, Aristoxenos, Aristos, Aristophanes, Aristea, Aristotelis, and others, the majority of which are compounds of the adjectival superlative áristos, "best" or "superior". They are also modern Greek transliterations for Ares, the god of war and the name for the planet Mars. The archaic Greek prefix ari-^[4] (e.g. in Ariadne, Arimnestus etc.) or eri-, a cognate of áristos, means "very" or "verily".

Hebrew

Ari is a common masculine given name in Hebrew (אריה/ארי). It means lion.^[5]

Scandinavian

Ari is a given name in Old Norse, Icelandic, Faroese, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish and means eagle or is the pet form of the names starting with Arn- or Old Norse ari "eagle".^[6]

Notable people named Ari

Ari Ahonen (born 1981), Finnish ice hockey goaltender
Ari Angervo (born 1944), Finnish classical violinist and conductor
Ari Anjala, Finnish orienteering competitor
Ari Ankorin (1908–1986), Israeli politician and lawyer
Ari Aster, American filmmaker and screenwriter
Ari Babakhanov, Uzbek musician
Ari Banias, American poet
Ari Behn (1972–2019), Norwegian author and husband of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
Ari Ben-Menahem, Israeli seismologist, author, polymath, historian of science, professor
Ari Ben-Menashe (born 1952), Iranian-born Israeli businessman, security consultant and author
Ari Berk (born 1967), American writer
Ari Berman (born 1970), American-Israeli rabbi, the fifth President of Yeshiva University
Ari Borovoy (born 1979), Mexican musician
Ari Boyland (born 1987), New Zealand actor
Ari Bozão (born 1969), Brazilian footballer
Ari Brown (born 1944), American jazz musician
Ari Brynjolfsson (1927–2013), Icelandic physicist
Ari Carlos (1933–2011), Brazilian football goalkeeper
Ari Clemente (born 1939), Brazilian footballer
Ari Cohen, Canadian actor
Ari Djepaxhia (born 1991), Albanian footballer
Ari Eldjárn (born 1981), Icelandic stand-up comedian, writer and actor
Ari Elon (born 1950), Israeli writer, Bible scholar, and educator
Ari Emanuel (born 1961), American talent agent
Ari Fitz (born 1989), American model, vlogger, television personality and film producer
Ari Fleischer (born 1960), former White House Press Secretary for U.S. President George W. Bush
Ari Folman (born 1962), Israeli film director, screenwriter and film score composer
Ari Freyr Skúlason (born 1987), Icelandic footballer
Ari Fuji (born 1968), pilot in command and flight instructor in Japan
Ari Glass (born 1989), American painter, designer and musician
Ari Gold (filmmaker), American filmmaker, actor, musician
Ari Gold (musician) (born 1977), American R&B artist
Ari L. Goldman (born 1949), American journalist and professor
Ari Goldwag (born 1979), American Orthodox Jewish singer, songwriter, composer, author and teacher
Ari Graynor (born 1983), American actress
Ari Greenberg (born 1981), American contract bridge player
Ari Gröndahl (born 1989), Finnish ice hockey defenceman
Ari Guðmundsson (1927–2003), Icelandic swimmer and ski jumper
Ari Trausti Guðmundsson (born 1948), Icelandic geologist, author, broadcaster, mountaineer and explorer
Ari Haanpää (born 1965), Finnish ice hockey player
Ari Handel, American neuroscientist, film producer and writer
Ari Harow (born 1973), American-born Israeli political consultant
Ari Heikkinen (footballer, born 1957), Finnish footballer
Ari Heikkinen (footballer, born 1964), Finnish footballer
Ari Helenius (born 1944), Finnish emeritus professor of biochemistry
Ari Herstand (born 1985), American singer/songwriter
Ari Hest (born 1979), American singer-songwriter
Ari Hjelm (born 1962), Finnish football coach and former player
Ari Hoenig (born 1973), American jazz drummer, composer and educator
Ari Hoogenboom (1927–2014), American historian
Ari Hoptman (born 1967), American actor and playwright
Ari Huumonen (1956–2013), Finnish discus thrower
Ari Ichihashi (市橋有里, born 1977), Japanese long-distance runner
Ari Jabotinsky (1910–1969), Revisionist Zionist activist, Israeli politician and academic
Ari Joshua, American guitarist, songwriter, member of the band Big High
Ari Jónsson (born 1994), Faroese footballer
Ari Jósefsson (1939–1964), Icelandic poet
Ari Kane, American crossdresser, activist, educator, and a founder of the Fantasia Fair
Ari Kattainen (born 1958), Finnish orienteering competitor
Ari Kelman, American historian and professor
Ari Koivunen (born 1984), Finnish heavy metal singer
Ari Koponen (born 1982), Finnish politician and MP
Ari Lahti (born 1963), Finnish businessman, President of Football Association of Finland
Ari Laptev (born 1950), Russian mathematician
Ari Lasso (born 1973), Indonesian musician
Ari Leff (born 1994), American singer and songwriter
Ari Lehman (born 1965), American actor and performance artist
Ari Leifsson (born 1998), Icelandic footballer
Ari Lemmke (born 1963), Finnish computer programmer
Ari Lennox (born 1991), American singer and songwriter
Ari Lesser (born 1986), Jewish American rapper, singer, songwriter and spoken word artist
Ari Libsker (born 1972), Israeli filmmaker and journalist
Ari Lohenoja (born 1958), Finnish television producer and director
Ari Louis (born 1983), Israeli-American talk show host
Ari Luotonen, Finnish software developer and author
Ari Magder (1983–2012), Canadian-born American actor
Ari Mannio (born 1987), Finnish javelin thrower
Ari Marcopoulos (born 1957), Dutch-American photographer and filmmaker
Ari Marmell (born 1974), American novelist and game writer
Ari Melber (born 1980), American journalist
Ari Benjamin Meyers (born 1972), American artist and composer
Ari Meyers (born 1969), American actress
Ari Millen (born 1982), Canadian actor
Ari Moisanen (born 1971), Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender
Ari Mustonen, Finnish cross-country skier
Ari Ne'eman (born 1987), American autism rights activist
Ari Norman, British designer of silver jewellery and gifts
Ari Nyman (born 1984), Finnish footballer
Ari Ólafsson (born 1998), Icelandic singer
Ari de Oliveira (1932–1977), Brazilian football goalkeeper
Aristotle Onassis (1906–1975), Greek shipping magnate and husband of Jacqueline Kennedy
Ari Ozawa (born 1992), Japanese voice actress
Ari Pakarinen (born 1969), Finnish javelin thrower
Ari Palolahti (born 1968), Finnish cross-country skier
Ari Paunonen (born 1958), Finnish runner
Ari Peltonen, Finnish a cappella rock singer known as Paska
Ari Porth (born 1970), American attorney, jurist, and politician
Ari Poutiainen (born 1972), Finnish jazz musician and composer
Ari Puheloinen (born 1951), Finnish general
Ari Pulkkinen (born 1982), Finnish video game composer, musician, and sound designer
Ari Rath (1925–2017), Austrian-Israeli journalist and writer
Ari Renaldi, Indonesian composer, sound and mixing engineer, music director and musician
Ari Romero (1951–2013), Mexican professional wrestler
Ari Rosenberg (born 1964), Israeli basketball player
Ari Roth (born 1961), American theatrical producer, playwright, director, and educator
Ari Saarinen (born 1967), Finnish ice hockey player
Ari Salin (born 1947), Finnish hurdler and sprinter
Ari Sandel (born 1974), American filmmaker
Ari Santos (born 1982), Brazilian futsal player
Ari Schwartz, American Internet Policy Advisor
Ari Shaffir (born 1974), American stand-up comedian
Ari Shapiro (born 1978), American radio journalist
Ari Daniel Shapiro, American science journalist
Ari Shavit (born 1957), Israeli reporter and writer
Ari Singh II (1724–1773), Maharana of Mewar Kingdom
Ari Sitas (born 1952), South African sociologist, writer, dramatist and civic activist
Ari Freyr Skúlason (born 1987), Icelandic international footballer
Ari de Souza (born 1939), Brazilian football forward
Ari Starace (born 1994), known as Y2K, American record producer and songwriter
Ari Stidham (born 1992), American actor and musician
Ari Suhonen (born 1965), Finnish middle-distance runner
Ari Sulander (born 1969), Finnish ice hockey goaltender
Ari Taub (director) (born 1965), American filmmaker
Ari Taub (wrestler) (born 1971), Canadian Greco-Roman wrestler
Ari Telch (born 1962), Mexican actor
Ari Þorgilsson (1067–1148), Icelandic medieval chronicler
Ari Tissari (1951–2023), Finnish footballer
Ari Torniainen (born 1956), Finnish politician and MP
Ari Up (1962–2010), German-born singer
Ari Väänänen (born 1947), Finnish long jumper
Ari Vallin (born 1978), Finnish former professional ice hockey defenceman
Ari Valvee (born 1960), Finnish footballer
Ari Vatanen (born 1952), Finnish politician and former rally driver
Ari Wallach (born 1974), Mexican-American businessman
Ari Westergård (1948–2010), Finnish sports shooter
Ari Westphal (born 1994), Brazilian fashion model
Ari Wolfe (born 1971), American play-by-play announcer, reporter and anchor
Ari Joshua Zucker, American guitarist and songwriter

Fictional characters

Ari, one of nine main heroes in the game Minecraft
Ari Ben Canaan, protagonist in the novel Exodus by Leon Uris and the 1960 film adaptation, played by Paul Newman
Ari Gold, on the comedy-drama television series Entourage
Ari Haswari, an antagonist in NCIS
Ari Tasarov, from the TV series Nikita
Ari Tenenbaum, character in Wes Anderson's 2001 movie The Royal Tenenbaums
Ari, one of two friends who often accompany Elinor in Elinor Wonders Why

Notes

^ Mountain, Appelation. "Ari: Baby Name of the Day". Appellation Mountain. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
^ Hockings, Paul; Pilot-Raichoor, Christiane (1992), Werner Winter; Richard A. Rhodes (eds.), A Badaga-English Dictionary, Trends in Linguistics: Documentation, vol. 8, Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, p. 47, ISBN 978-3-11-012677-8, OCLC 25963917, retrieved 13 Dec 2011
^ Balodis, Pauls (August 2009). "Personal Names of Livonian Origin in Latvia: Past and Present" (PDF). In Wolfgang Ahrens; Sheila Embleton; André Lapierre (eds.). Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences. 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences. Toronto, Canada: York University. pp. 105–116. ISBN 978-1-55014-521-2. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
^ Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert. "A Greek-English Lexicon, ἀρι^-". Perseus Digital Library.
^ Stewart, Julia (1993), "A", African Names (GoogleBook), New York, New York: Kensington Publishing, p. 14, ISBN 0-8065-1386-1, OCLC 59614650, retrieved 13 Dec 2011
^ Nordic Names : "Ari" [1]

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[AppellationMountain-1] Mountain, Appelation. "Ari: Baby Name of the Day". Appellation Mountain. Retrieved 30 August 2023.

[hockings92-2] Hockings, Paul; Pilot-Raichoor, Christiane (1992), Werner Winter; Richard A. Rhodes (eds.), A Badaga-English Dictionary, Trends in Linguistics: Documentation, vol. 8, Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, p. 47, ISBN 978-3-11-012677-8, OCLC 25963917, retrieved 13 Dec 2011

[balodis09-3] Balodis, Pauls (August 2009). "Personal Names of Livonian Origin in Latvia: Past and Present" (PDF). In Wolfgang Ahrens; Sheila Embleton; André Lapierre (eds.). Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences. 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences. Toronto, Canada: York University. pp. 105–116. ISBN 978-1-55014-521-2. Retrieved 23 April 2011.

[greek-4] Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert. "A Greek-English Lexicon, ἀρι^-". Perseus Digital Library.

[stewart93-5] Stewart, Julia (1993), "A", African Names (GoogleBook), New York, New York: Kensington Publishing, p. 14, ISBN 0-8065-1386-1, OCLC 59614650, retrieved 13 Dec 2011

[6] Nordic Names : "Ari" [1]

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