Yuri (Japanese Name) - Wikipedia

Yuri

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

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

Written forms

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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

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• 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

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• 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 Miyazono (ゆり), a protagonist of Witchblade: Ao no Shōjo novel
• Yuri Nakamura (ゆり), a character in the anime series Angel Beats!
• Yuri Sakazaki (ユリ), a character in the video game series Art of Fighting
• Yuri Suzuki (夕梨), a character in the manga series Red River
• 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 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
• Yuri Ushigome (ゆり), a character in the multimedia BanG Dream!

Yūri

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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.

Written forms

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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

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