Entry № 11859 · Korean origin

Yuri Yuri — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YOO-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Korean
Meaning
"Kwon Yu-ri - SNSD 2nd-gen K-pop legend"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Korean)

A name that means "kwon yu-ri - snsd 2nd-gen k-pop legend".

Yuri is from the Korean yu (유 — jewel) + ri (리 — beautiful).

Jewel beautiful (Korean).

The name in its native script.

유리 / 권유리
Transliteration
Yu-ri
Pronunciation
/ ˈjuː.ri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yuri stands.

Yuri 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.

Yuris before her.

Real people
Yuri (Kwon Yu-ri, SNSD)
Girls' Generation 2nd-gen K-pop.
born 1989
In fiction
Yuri
Korean jewel beautiful.

Names connected to Yuri.

The number behind Yuri.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yuri reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.