Bari | Imamother

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Olive

Fri, Sep 01 2017, 1:06 am

I know several American girls (some frum some not) named this-pronounced like Berry., but when I asked my Israeli husband about it he looked puzzled and said "that's not a name".

Does anyone know the meaning of this name? Is it used in your community?

HeartyAppetite

Fri, Sep 01 2017, 1:28 am

I know it as a boys name. Its the yiddish version of dov - Bear

heidi

Fri, Sep 01 2017, 1:38 am

I know a girl named Bari. No idea why or where it's from

amother

Smokey

Fri, Sep 01 2017, 1:39 am

My relative's name is Bari. It's an English name. Her Hebrew name is something different. It's a variation of the boys name Barry. MO community.
https://www.babycenter.com/bab.....5.htm

finallyamommy

Fri, Sep 01 2017, 7:16 am

I have a female relative named Barrie. I'm guessing that's a variant spelling and it's related to Barry.

water_bear88

Fri, Sep 01 2017, 7:30 am

I've heard Be'eri/בארי, as in "my well". Shva na under the bet and not sure whether tzereh or segol under the aleph.

salt

Fri, Sep 01 2017, 7:51 am

water_bear88 wrote:

I've heard Be'eri/בארי, as in "my well". Shva na under the bet and not sure whether tzereh or segol under the aleph.

It's a biblical name too - Hoshea ben Be'eri.

Fri, Sep 01 2017, 7:56 am

I know of Bari (pronounced "Barry") as an English name. I think if it in the same category as Leni, Geri and Teri - a female version of an androgynous name with that type of spelling.

I have never heard it pronounced as "Berry," but there are some places where the local accent would make it more likely.

water_bear88

Fri, Sep 01 2017, 8:33 am

salt wrote:

It's a biblical name too - Hoshea ben Be'eri.

Thank you- I hadn't realized that! What sefer of Tanach?

salt

Mon, Sep 04 2017, 2:48 am

water_bear88 wrote:

Thank you- I hadn't realized that! What sefer of Tanach?

Sefer Hoshea I assume

etky

Mon, Sep 04 2017, 4:22 am

salt wrote:

Sefer Hoshea I assume

Also appears in sefer Bereshit - Yehudit bat Be'eri - a wife of Esav.
Be'eri is very trendy now among DL in Israel.
I've heard if used for both boys and girls.