Yuriko
Feminine · “lily child”
Yuriko is a Japanese woman's name, and the element at the front of it is usually the word for a lily. Japan's own lilies became, for a while, one of its significant exports, shipped abroad as bulbs by the shipload.
How old is the name Yuriko?
Yuriko first appears in US birth records in 1914 — 111 years ago. The typical Yuriko alive today was born around 1934, making them about 91 years old. About 400 people named Yuriko are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yuriko most popular?
Yuriko peaked in 1923, reaching #1197 nationally. See the whole 1923 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Yuriko
Japanese lilies were a sensation in European and American gardens from the late nineteenth century, and Japan built a substantial export trade in the bulbs, sending millions abroad every year through the ports. The flowers were larger and more strongly scented than anything Europe had, and they were planted everywhere. The trade also, unknowingly, distributed a virus that infected lilies worldwide and is still a problem for growers, and the export business collapsed in the mid twentieth century for that reason among others. A flower that gave the name its meaning also gave the world one of its more persistent plant diseases, which is the ordinary price of moving living things around.
Meaningscholars disagree
lily child
The ko at the end is the word for child in every version. The yuri in front is most often the character for a lily, though other characters with the same sound are used, so the reading depends on a spelling an American record does not preserve.
Pronouncing Yuriko
YOO-ree-koh
Three syllables, evenly weighted, with clear vowels. English speakers press the first, which is close enough.
Nicknames for Yuriko
Limited
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1914
- Most girls named
- 192342 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1197reached in 1923
- Change vs 2022
- 0.0%6 in 2024, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Yuriko in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yuriko in Japanese — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Yurikos among us
people named Yuriko are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Yuriko sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Three open syllables with no sound English lacks survive the crossing intact.
- Yuri is available as a short form and works in more than one tradition.
- It carries a documented naming practice rather than a guessed-at etymology.
- In Japan the -ko ending now reads as belonging to an older generation.
- The short form is a man's name in Russian, which is worth knowing in a mixed community.
- The characters that fix the meaning are not recorded on an American certificate.
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- How many Yurikos are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Yuriko are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Yuriko in 2025?
- Yuriko is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Yuriko will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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