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Sayuri

#2,380 in 2025Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Sayuri has been given to 1,424 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #2,380 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 106 recorded.

Babies named Sayuri, 2025

1 in 43,600

Sayuri over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sayuri: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Sayuri means

Sayuri is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include small, lily.

Origin, language, and formation

Sayuri is used in English and French. Its origins include Japanese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Sayuri is pronounced /sa.ju.ʁi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,424 girls were recorded with the name Sayuri between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 106 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,953 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,243 in 2020 to #2,380 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,085 in 2015 to #2,380 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sayuri?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 43,600
76 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 21,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,380
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
30,237 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sayuri sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 30,237 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sayuri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sayuris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sayuri was born before 2011 — so the typical Sayuri is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,424
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Choose a decade

2010s — 40.9% of all recorded uses (582).

Is Sayuri rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,368
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,863
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+705
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.7%
Peak was 2007 (106)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,953
2007

Spellings of Sayuri

Sayuri is not the most common spelling — Lauri is, with 32.0% against Sayuri's 4.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sayuri is used

Across 1910–2025, Sayuri was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 139,389 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sayuri has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sayuri around the world

Where Sayuri ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    2008–2022
    #5,842
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2020–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sayuri by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,380
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,863
Best rank ever
#1,953
2007
Peak year
2007
106 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,424
Count in 2025
76

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