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Yuriko

Girls' name

Lily + child

Yuriko has been given to 761 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1923, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Yuriko, 2024

1 in 557,000

Yuriko 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yuriko: meaning, origin, and history

Lily + child

Japanese

What Yuriko means

Yuriko means “lily + child”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Yuriko is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /jɨᵝ.ɾi.ko̞/ for Yuriko.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* From Japanese ゆりこ (Yuriko). * From Japanese ゆうりこ (Yūriko).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Yuriko (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

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

Yuriko comes through Japanese ゆりこ and Japanese ゆうりこ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Yuriko is pronounced /ju.ʁi.ko/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 761 girls were recorded with the name Yuriko between 1914 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 42 in 1923; its best national rank was #1,211 in 1923.

How common is Yuriko?

Yuriko had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yuriko 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 2024 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yuriko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yurikos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yuriko was born before 1934 — so the typical Yuriko is around 91 today.

Median birth year
1934
About 91 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
33.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
358
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (258).

Is Yuriko 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1923 (42)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,211
1923

Spellings of Yuriko

Yuriko is not the most common spelling — Yuri is, with 52.4% against Yuriko's 10.6%.

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 Yuriko is used

Across 1910–2025, Yuriko was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 2,273 girls, against 1 in 78,193 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

044 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 2,273
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Yuriko has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yuriko around the world

Where Yuriko 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.

  • France
    1979–1979
    #2,719
    in 1979

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Yuriko by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,211
1923
Peak year
1923
42 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
761
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yuriko

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Yuriko

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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