Entry № 9319 · Japanese origin

Sayuri Sayuri — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sah-YOO-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Small lily"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Japanese)

A name that means "small lily".

Sayuri is the heroine of Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha (1997) and the Rob Marshall film adaptation. Sayuri Yoshinaga (born 1945) is the iconic Japanese actress.

Small lily. The Memoirs of a Geisha heroine.

The name in its native script.

小百合
Transliteration
Sayuri
Pronunciation
/ səˈjuː.ri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sayuri stands.

Sayuri does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sayuris before her.

Real people
Sayuri Yoshinaga
Japanese actress.
born 1945
In fiction
Sayuri
Heroine of Memoirs of a Geisha.
Arthur Golden, 1997

Names connected to Sayuri.

The number behind Sayuri.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sayuri reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.