# Yuri (Japanese name)

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

## Written forms

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 and the two single-kanji spellings 閖 and 岼 are not official names. ゆり is hiragana and ユリ is katakana.

## People

* 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

* 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 Sakazaki (ユリ), a character in the video game series Art of Fighting
* 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 Suzuki (夕梨), a character in the manga series Red River
* 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

Yūri or Yuuri (ゆうり, ユウリ, ユーリ) is a separate unisex Japanese given name, though it may be romanized the same way.

### Written forms

* 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

* 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

* 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