Kari (name)
Kari is either a male or female given name, or a surname.
Given name
In Finland, Kari is a male name, which was particularly popular in the 1940s and 1950s. The name is derived from the Greek Makarios (or Macarius).
In Norway, Kari is a popular female name. This name is diminutive of Katharine, meaning "pure". The corresponding Swedish and German name is Karin.
In Iceland and Faroe Islands, Kári is a male name, based on a Scandinavian god of wind of the same name. The corresponding Norwegian male name is Kåre or Kaare.
Surname
Kari is a popular surname in South India. In Andhra Pradesh the village of Karivari Palem is named after the surname; in the village Inkollu,Gangavaram almost 60% families have this surname. Kari can also be spelt Kahri.
Kari is also a Finnish surname, meaning a small island, islet, or an underwater rock.
Famous people named Kari
Females with the given name
- Kari Anderson, American actress
- Kari Berg, Swedish/Norwegian singer/model/actress
- Kari Bremnes, Norwegian singer
- Kari Byron, member of the MythBusters team
- Kari Corbett, Scottish actress
- Kari Jobe, American singer
- Kari Köster-Lösche, German author
- Kari Matchett, Canadian actress
- Kari Nissena, American actress
- Kari Rueslåtten, Norwegian singer
- Kari Traa, Norwegian skier
- Kari Wahlgren, American voice actress
- Kari Wührer, American actress
Males with the given name
- Kari Arkivuo, Finnish footballer
- Kari Aronpuro, Finnish poet
- Kari Eloranta, Finnish footballer and ice hockey player
- Kari Enqvist, Finnish physicist and writer
- Kari Hotakainen, Finnish writer
- Kári P. Højgaard, Faroese politician
- Kari Häkämies, Finnish politician
- Kari Härkönen, Finnish skier
- Kari Jalonen, Finnish ice hockey coach
- Kari Kairamo, former CEO of Nokia
- Kari Korhonen, Finnish cartoonist
- Kari Korhonen, Finnish mycologist
- Kari Kriikku, Finnish clarinet player
- Kari Kuivalainen, Finnish musician
- Kari Kuuva, Finnish singer and composer
- Kari Lehtonen, Finnish NHL Goaltender for the Dallas Stars
- Kari Makkonen, Finnish ice hockey player
- Kari Mannerla, Finnish game designer
- Kari Mäkinen, Archbishop of Turku
- Kari Peitsamo, Finnish musician
- Kari Rajamäki, Finnish politician
- Kari Ristanen, Finnish skier
- Kari Rydman, Finnish composer
- Kari Streymoy, drummer of Faeroese Viking metal band Tyr
- Kári Stefánsson, Icelandic founder of deCODE genetics
- Kari Suomalainen, Finnish cartoonist
- Kari Takko, Finnish ice hockey goalkeeper
- Kari Tapio, Finnish singer
- Kari Tiainen, Finnish motorcycle rider
- Kari S. Tikka, Finnish legal scholar
- Kari Ukkonen, Finnish footballer
- Kari Uotila, Finnish politician
- Kari Väänänen, Finnish actor and director
- Kari Ylianttila, Finnish ski-jumper
People with the surname
- Dagur Kári, Icelandic filmmaker
- Jarkko Kari, Finnish mathematician
- Tamla Kari, British actress
- Tommi Kari, Finnish footballer
People with the nickname
- Sundaram Karivardhan, Indian motor sports promoter
Fictional and mythological characters
- Kári, son of Fornjót, the personification of wind in Norse mythology
- Kari Grandi, Finnish advertising character
- Hikari "Kari" Kamiya, a character in Digimon media
- Kari Nordmann, Norwegian placeholder name
- Kari Ragnarsson, a character in the book Snow-walker by Catherine Fisher
See also
- Kari (disambiguation)