Name: Heri
Gender: Male
Usage: Heri, of swahili origin, is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Heri are in general originating from United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Heri across the world, see Héri.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Heri is: Happiness, Blessedness.
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Numerology of the first name Heri: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 4. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: traditional, organized, self-disciplined, steady, logical, practical, helpful, reliable.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Practical, Dependable
Ruling planet: Uranus
Colors: Blue, Gray
Gemstones: Sapphire
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The name Heri is ranked on the 4,014th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 81500 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.002% of the population. The name Heri has four characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
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History and Origin
Héri is a male given name in the Faroe Islands. The earliest mention of the name is in the Flateyjarbók (in which the spelling is 'Héri'), partly concerning the Viking age history of the Faroe Islands, written around 1380 in Iceland. In this story Heri Sigmundsson is the youngest son of Sigmundur Brestisson. Heri is a very common name in the Faroe Islands today, probably not surviving as a traditional name, but more likely revived and put into use again in later times from historical accounts like Flateyjarbók.
There are two explanations for the meaning of the name:
- The more likely is that it means 'hare' (lepus europaeus), for which the common modern Icelandic name is still Héri. In the Faroes the name is Hara, but it is probably a Norwegian loanword taken into the Faroese language at the time of the introduction of the hare to the Faroe Islands. There is one problem with this explanation. Flateyjarbók was written by men who had clearly never been to the Faroe Islands and neither Heri nor Héri seem to have ever been given names in Icerand (so this is also connected to the problem of whether or not Flateyjarbók is a reliable historical account).
- The less likely is that Héri is an abbreviation of Norse names beginning with Her-, like Herálfur, Herleifur, Hergeir etc. Very many Faroese and Icelandic given male names have common abbreviations ending on an -i, but this explanation does not account for the original spelling with the accent over the 'e', Héri.
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