Backround information that I found from Internet: The comment here on Eleri meaning "Overflowing Happiness" is the only example of the name's meaning that I have seen on the web. Most sites state that it means "greatly bitter", another says it means "overflowing", yet another site said it meant "enough" and others just simply state that it is the name of a river in Wales or the name of one of Brychan's daughters... I did find a story that stated that the name of the river came from the story of a water nymph who fell in love with a shepherd boy that ended up dying and that, in her grief, she cried the river. Therefore the name means "overflowing sorrow". I would like to add that on our Greece trip a Cyprus businessman said that my name means "come here" but I didn't find anything that proves that from the Internet. I am used that my name is not easy to remember and pronounce. Even Estonians are not really confident to pronounce my name. So, obviously I won't get mad if foreigners mispronounce it. It's always funny to see people struggeling with my name. One thing is how to pronounce it, second one is how to remember it. Everybody knows that Marat has an excellent brain. In on-arrival training he named all the participant's names and then he reached to me and Heleri ... silence. Even professor was strugelling on the second working week with our names. Third struggeling part is Eleri and Heleri. Who is who? You say Heleri but you mean Eleri and vice versa. Funniest thing is that even Anna called me Heleri for weeks. It supposed to be easier to her but nope. Actually I reacted every time when somebody sayed something similar to my name. And you can always solve a problem giving a person a new name. For example Elari, Ilaria, Jüri or Jürka. Why do I use name Eleri Baci? Because Baci sounds a bit like my last name and it looks better than my own name. Actually my surname sounds even more like word "pazzi". I also have a story with word "baci" when I was in Italy for a first time. Our guide recommended us to buy Baci products and she told us the word meaning. From that moment I realised that it's not the best idea to tell my surname to Italians, they may mishear it. For now I have made my fear part of my everyday life. That's why most of my accounts are named so. Mustafa told me that this word has also meaning in Turkish.
Baci - kisses (Italian); rude sister (Turkish) Pazzi - insane/grazy people (Italian)
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Eleri Pearson
5/30/2020 04:25:20 am
Very interesting I never knew that. Only that there was a river. People struggle to pronounce and remember my name. French people usually think it's Hilary. In England I get Ellery.
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Deven L Pearson
12/29/2021 02:38:21 am
My youngest daughters middle name is Eleri. When looking for a name to honor her uncle that passed a few months befor she was born, we looked up names meaning cheif, that was a nick name his Grandma used. What I found was that it means Cheif or very important person!
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Deven L Pearson
12/29/2021 02:39:29 am
I dont remember the origin that it was from with that meaning.....
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