Meaning: Slavic form of George: farmer
The story
Slavic Yuri belongs to the George family and inherits its Greek farming meaning. Japanese Yuri is a separate name: 百合 reads as lily, while other character choices can give different meanings.
Also means
What Yuri means in its other languages.
- Japaneselily when written 百合; other characters give other meanings
Nicknames
- Yura
- Yurik
Spellings & variants
- Yury
- Jurij
- Juri
- George
Popularity
Outside the US top 1,000.
Style
Origins
Yuri comes from Russian, Ukrainian, and Japanese. It’s a bridge name, with roots in more than one culture.
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Beauty and fragrance in one Japanese spelling
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