Kari (name) 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. There are currently 2242 holders of the name (2015). Kari (name) Kari is either a male or female given name, or a surname. 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
Scylax of Caryanda the natives, which he would have accepted in good faith. Scylax's "Periplus" provided the West with its first account of the easterly people and served as a model for later Greek writers. More lastingly, it gave India its name. The people of the Indus region were referred to as "Hiduš" or "Hidush" in Persian (due to sound change of "*s" > "h" from Proto-Iranian "Sindhu"). If Scylax wrote in the Ionic dialect of Greek, which did not pronounce initial "h" sounds, he would have transformed it to "Indos" (plural: "Indoi"). Their land was characterised as "Indike" (the adjectival form, meaning