Yuriko Explained
| Yuriko |
| Pronunciation: | Yúriko |
| Gender: | Female |
| Meaning: | It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used. |
| Region: | Japan |
| Origin: | Japanese |
| Related Names: | Yuri
Yurika
Yurie |
| Footnotes: | [1] |
is a common Japanese given name, used for women.
Possible writings
Yuriko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
- 百合子, "lily, child"
- 由里子, "reason, hometown, child"
- 由利子, "reason, benefit, child"
- 由李子, "reason, plum, child"
- 優梨子, "tenderness, pear, child"
- 有里子, "possess, hometown, child"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
Real people
- with the given name Yuriko
- Yuriko Backes, a Luxembourgish diplomat and politician
- Alisa Yuriko Durbrow (ユリコ), a Japanese model, actress, and singer
- Yuriko Chiba (千羽 由利子), a Japanese animation director
- Yuriko Doi, choreographer and stage director
- Yuriko Fuchizaki (渕崎 ゆり子), a Japanese voice actress
- Yuriko Handa (百合子), a Japanese volleyball player
- , Japanese high jumper
- Yuriko Hishimi (ひし美 ゆり子), a Japanese actress
- Yuriko Ishida (石田 ゆり子), a Japanese actress
- Yuriko Kaida (貝田 由里子), a Japanese singer
- Yuriko Kajiya (百合子), a Japanese ballerina
- Yuriko Kikuchi (née Amemiya, 1920–2022), a Japanese American dancer
- Yuriko Kobayashi (祐梨子), a Japanese middle distance runner
- Yuriko Koike (小池 百合子), a Japanese politician
- Yuriko Kuronuma (ユリ子), a Japanese violinist
- Yuriko Miyamoto (宮本 百合子), a Japanese novelist
- Yuriko Nakamura (由利子), a Japanese composer and pianist
- , Japanese footballer
- Yuriko Shiratori (百合子), a Japanese gravure idol, tarento and actress
- Yuriko Takagi (高木 百合子), later Princess Mikasa of Japan
- , Japanese weightlifter
- , Japanese slalom canoeist
- Yuriko Yamaguchi (山口 由里子), (born 1965) a Japanese voice actress
- Yuriko Yamaguchi, a Japanese American sculptor
- Yuriko Yamamoto (山本 百合子), a Japanese voice actress
- Yuriko Yoshitaka (吉高 由里子), a Japanese actress
Fictional characters
- with the given name Yuriko
- Yuriko Omega (Japanese: 百合子Ω), the commando unit of the Empire of the Rising Sun in the real-time strategy video game
- Yuriko Oyama (ユリコ・オヤマ, also known as Lady Deathstrike), a Marvel Comics villain
- Yuriko Star (ユリコ), a character in the manga and anime series The Irresponsible Captain Tylor
- Yuriko Janetson is the name of the narrator's daughter in Joanna Russ's short story "When It Changed"
- Yuriko Suzuhina is the name of the cross dressing version of Accelerator by Kamijou Touma in the To Aru Majutsu no Index.
- Yuriko Edogawa, a character from Ultra Q
- Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow is a card from the trading card game.
- Yuriko Nishinotouin, Head of the Traditional Culture Research Club at Hyakkou Private Academy in the anime Kakegurui.
See also
Notes and References
- http://www.babynames.co.uk/meaning_origin_name_Yuriko.htm Yuriko-Meaning and origin of the name Yuriko
