Given name
Yuriko
“resembling a lily”
Yuriko is a variant of Yuri. One Japanese interpretation is “resembling a lily.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Yuriko is a variant of Yuri. One Japanese interpretation is “resembling a lily.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Yuriko is a variant of Yuri. An origin associated with Yuri is Japanese.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Japanese ゆりこ (Yuriko), from Japanese ゆうりこ (Yūriko).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yuriko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 761
- 0 boys · 761 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 42 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 42 in 1923. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,172 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yuriko’s family of names
Yuriko has a related form in Yuri. In English usage, Yuriko has a related form in Yuhriko. In English usage, Yuriko has a related form in Yuuriko.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yuriko
- Yuriko MizumaJapanese association football playerborn 1970
- Yuriko KoikeJapanese politician (born 1952)
- Yuriko, Princess MikasaJapanese princess; widow of Takahito, Prince Mikasa (1923–2024)
- Miyamoto YurikoJapanese novelist, critic, member of the Japanese Communist Party1899–1951
- Yuriko YoshitakaJapanese actressborn 1988
- Yuriko HandaJapanese volleyball playerborn 1940
- Yuriko IshidaJapanese actress, narratorborn 1969
- Yuriko YamaguchiJapanese voice actress, actress, narrator and singerborn 1965
- Lily MiyazakiJapanese-born British female tennis playerborn 1995
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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