Yuri (Japanese name)

Yuri (ゆり, ユリ) is a Japanese given name. Although it sounds similar, it is completely unrelated to the Slavic name Yuri.

Yuri

Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	Different meanings depending on the kanji used
Other names
Related names	Yūri Yurie Yurika Yuriko

Japanese long distance runner Yuri Kano in Berlin

Possible writings

Yuri can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

• 由里, "reason, village"
• 由理, "reason, logic"
• 由利, "reason, profit"
• 由梨, "reason, pear"
• 祐里, "to help, village"
• 友里, "friend, village"
• 友理, "friend, logic"
• 有里, "exist, village"
• 有莉, "exist, white jasmine/pear"
• 百合, "lily"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People

• Yuri Amano (由梨, born 1966), Japanese voice actress
• Yuri Ebihara (友里, born 1979), Japanese model and actress
• Yuri Ichii (由理, born 1972), Japanese singer and rapper
• Yuri Kanō (由理, born 1978), Japanese long-distance runner
• Yuri Kasahara (由里), Japanese opera singer
• Yuri Kochiyama (百合, 1921–2014), Japanese-American activist
• Yuri Komura (born 1992), Japanese ice hockey player
• Yuri Komuro (友里, born 1976), Japanese actress, writer and adult video actress
• Yuri Masuda (祐里, born 1977), Japanese singer
• Yuri Mitsui (ゆり, born 1968), Japanese actress and model
• Yuri Nagai (友理, born 1992) Japanese field hockey player
• Yuri Nakagawa (友里, born 1989), Japanese model
• Yuri Nakamura (友理, born 1982), Japanese actress and singer
• Yuri Nakamura (singer) (由利, born 1977), Japanese composer and singer
• Yuri Narushima (ゆり), Japanese manga artist
• Yuri Noguchi (ゆり, born 1992), Japanese voice actress
• Yuri Shiratori (由里, born 1968), Japanese voice actress and singer
• Yuri Yamaoka (ゆり), Japanese voice actress
• Yuri Yasuda (有里, born 1983), Japanese businesswoman
• Yuri (poet) (百合, 1694–1764), Japanese poet and calligrapher

Fictional characters

• Yuri (ユリ), a character in the light novel series Dirty Pair
• Yuri (ユリ), a character in the visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club!
• Yuri Ashida (有莉), a character in the anime series Aikatsu Stars!
• Yuri Sakazaki (ユリ), a character in the video game series Art of Fighting
• Yuri Tanima (ゆり), a character in the manga series Wedding Peach
• Yuri Tsukikage (ゆり), a character from the anime HeartCatch Pretty Cure!
• Yuri Suzuki (夕梨), a character in the manga series Red River
• Yuri Tamura (ゆり), a character in the manga Watamote
• Yuri Tachibana (由里), a character in the film Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

Yūri

Yūri

Gender	Unisex
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	Different meanings depending on the kanji used

Yūri or Yuuri (ゆうり, ユウリ) is a separate unisex Japanese given name, though it may be romanized the same way.

Possible writings

• 悠里, "permanence, village"
• 裕理, "abundant, logic"
• 優理, "excellent, logic"
• 侑李, "urge to eat, plum"
• 勇利, "courage, profit"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People

• Yuri Chinen (侑李, born 1993), Japanese singer and actor
• Yuri Fudoh (裕理, born 1976), Japanese golfer
• Yuri Kawamura (優理, born 1989), Japanese footballer
• Yuuri Morishita (悠里, born 1985), Japanese singer
• Yuri Obara (悠里, born 1980), Japanese speed skater
• Yuri Okubo (勇利, born 2000), Japanese snowboarder
• Yuuri Rukawa (ゆうり, born 1999), Japanese actress
• Yuuri (singer-songwriter) (優里, born 1994), Japanese singer-songwriter and YouTuber

Fictional characters

• Yuuri (ユーリ), a character in the manga series Girls' Last Tour
• Yuri Kagarin (有理), a character from Super Danganronpa Another 2: Moon of Hope and Sun of Despair
• Yuri Katsuki (勇利) and Yuri Plisetsky (ユーリ・プリセツキー), characters in the anime series Yuri on Ice
• Yuri Kozukata (夕莉), a character from the video game series Fatal Frame
• Yūri Wakasa (悠里), a character in the manga series School-Live!
• Yuri (ユウリ), a character in the Super Sentai season Mirai Sentai Timeranger
• Yuri (ユーリス), a character in Fire Emblem: Three Houses
• Yuri Lowell (ユーリ・ローウェル), the main character in the video game Tales of Vesperia

See also

• Yuriko
• Yuri (Slavic name)
• Yu-ri (Korean name)
• All pages with titles beginning with Yuri