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Scripts 渉, 渡, 渉理, 和多里, 和多利(Japanese Kanji) わたり(Japanese Hiragana) ワタリ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced Pron. /ɰᵝä.tä.ɾʲi/  [key·simplify]

Meaning & History

This is, essentially, a variant of Wataru (compare Hikari to Hikaru and Nozomi to Nozomu).

This name can be used as 渉 (shou, wata.ru) meaning "ferry, ford, port" or 渡 (to, wata.su, wata.ru, watari) meaning "cross, ferry, ford, import, migrate."
Examples of this name with 3 kanji include 和多里 and 和多利 with 和 (wa, o, ka, yawa.ragu/eru, nago.mu, nago.yaka, a.eru) meaning "harmony, peace," 多 (ta, oo.i, masa.ni/ru) meaning "many," 里 (ri, sato), referring to a unit of distance called ri, or otherwise meaning "village," and 利 (ri, ki.ku) meaning "profit, benefit, advantage."

This name is rarely given.
Added 1/13/2015 by m4yb3_daijirou
Edited 3/8/2020 by Mike C, Evil and m4yb3_daijirou