is a common

Japanese given name in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name, in that order. Nevertheless, when a Japanese name is written in the Roman alphabet, ever since the Meiji era, the official policy has been to cater to Western expecta ...

, used for women.

Possible writings

Yuriko can be written using different

kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese ...

characters and can mean: *百合子, "lily, child" *由里子, "reason, hometown, child" *由利子, "reason, benefit, child" *由李子, "reason, plum, child" *優梨子, "tenderness, pear, child" *有里子, "possess, hometown, child" The name can also be written in

hiragana is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' literally means "flowing" or "simple" kana ("simple" originally as contrast ...

katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived fr ...

Real people

;with the given name Yuriko *

Yuriko Backes Yuriko Nadia Backes (born 22 December 1970) is a Luxembourgish diplomat and politician who has served as Minister for Finances since 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, she has led the nation's financial sector through the economic crisis cau ...

, a Luxembourgish diplomat and politician *

Alisa Yuriko Durbrow (born April 16, 1988) is a Japanese model, actress, and singer from Saitama Prefecture. History She is most famous for her role as Mio Kuroki in the Sailor Moon live action show ''Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (2003 TV series), Pretty Guardian Sai ...

(ユリコ), a Japanese model, actress, and singer *

Yuriko Chiba is an animator and character designer. Some of her major character designs were for anime shows ''To Heart'', ''Figure 17'', ''Planetes'', and ''Sacred Seven''. In animation direction, she worked on '' I Dream of Mimi'', '' Berserk'', ''Code Gea ...

(千羽由利子), a Japanese animation director *

Yuriko Doi Yuriko Doi is a stage director, choreographer, performer and former founding artistic director of Theatre of Yugen (San Francisco, California). Doi specializes in the fusion of traditional Japanese dramatic arts with modern world theater. Theatre o ...

, choreographer and stage director *

Yuriko Fuchizaki is a Japanese stage actress and voice actress from Ōta, Tokyo. She is a graduate of the College of Fine Arts at Nihon University. She then moved to Sigma Seven in 1991, and on July 1, 2003, she moved to her current agency, REMAX. From 1987 to th ...

(渕崎ゆり子), a Japanese voice actress *

Yuriko Handa is a retired Japanese volleyball player. She was a member of the Japanese winning teams, , at the 1962 World Championships and 1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an internati ...

(百合子), a Japanese volleyball player *, Japanese high jumper *

Yuriko Hishimi is a Japanese actress. In 1965, she signed a contract with Toho. Following year, she made her film debut in ''Taifu to Zakuro''. She portrayed Anne Yuri in the Japanese television series ''Ultra Seven'' (1967–1968) and subsequent appearances in ...

(ひし美ゆり子), a Japanese actress *

Yuriko Ishida is a Japanese actress and essayist from Nagoya. She was the Japanese voice of the title character San from the 1997 animated film ''Princess Mononoke''. She is the older sister of Hikari Ishida, also an actress. Filmography Films *''Gokudo no On ...

(石田ゆり子), a Japanese actress *

Yuriko Kaida FictionJunction is a singing group that solely performs songs written by Japanese composer Yuki Kajiura. The term "FictionJunction" alone refers to this group; solo works between Kajiura and a vocalist are referenced by adding the singer's name ...

(貝田由里子), a Japanese singer *

Yuriko Kajiya Yuriko Kajiya (加治屋百合子 ''Kajiya Yuriko'', born 1984) is a Japanese ballet dancer who currently performs as a principal (ballet), principal dancer with Houston Ballet. Prior to joining Houston Ballet, she danced as a soloist with Americ ...

(百合子), a Japanese ballerina * Yuriko Kikuchi (née Amemiya, 1920–2022), a Japanese American dancer *

Yuriko Kobayashi Yuriko Kobayashi ( ja, 小林祐梨子; born 12 December 1988) is a Japanese professional middle- and long-distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres and 5000 metres. She represented Japan at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She started out ...

(祐梨子), a Japanese middle distance runner *

Yuriko Koike is a Japanese politician who currently serves as the Governor of Tokyo since 2016. She graduated from the American University in Cairo in 1976 and was a member of the House of Representatives of Japan from 1993 until 2016, when she resigned to ...

(小池百合子), a Japanese politician * Yuriko Kuronuma (ユリ子), a Japanese violinist *

Yuriko Miyamoto was a Japanese novelist, short-story writer, social activist, and literary critic active during the Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan. She is best known for her autobiographical fiction and involvement in proletarian and women's libera ...

(宮本百合子), a Japanese novelist *

Yuriko Nakamura is a Japanese composer and pianist. Some of her songs were also used for the soundtrack of Shusuke Kaneko's ''Summer Vacation 1999 is a 1988 Japanese romantic drama film directed by Shusuke Kaneko, based on the manga series ''The Heart of Th ...

(由利子), a Japanese composer and pianist *, Japanese footballer *

Yuriko Shiratori is a Japanese gravure idol, tarento artist and actress formerly affiliated to the A-Team Entertainment Production Agency. Career Yuriko graduated at Sendai Vocational School in April 2004 and moved to the capital, hoping to become an actress, wh ...

(百合子), a Japanese gravure idol,

tarento Television personalities in Japan, known as in Japanese, are celebrities who regularly appear in mass media in Japan, especially as panelists on variety shows. During the Golden Age of Hollywood, bankable stars in America were described as "tal ...

and actress *Yuriko Takagi (高木百合子), later

Princess Mikasa (born ; 4 June 1923), is a member of the Imperial House of Japan as the widow of Takahito, Prince Mikasa, the fourth son of Emperor Taishō and Empress Teimei. The Princess is the last surviving paternal great-aunt-in-law of Emperor Naruhito, an ...

of Japan *, Japanese weightlifter *, Japanese slalom canoeist * Yuriko Yamaguchi (山口由里子), (born 1965) a Japanese voice actress * Yuriko Yamaguchi, a Japanese American sculptor *

Yuriko Yamamoto is a Japanese actress, voice actress, singer and narrator from Hino, Tokyo. She is represented by Aoni Production. Her debut role was the title character in ''Hello! Sandybell'' in 1981. She has voiced many major roles in 1980s and 1990s anime ...

(山本百合子), a Japanese voice actress *

Yuriko Yoshitaka is a Japanese actress. She has played numerous roles in film and television, including lead roles in ''Snakes and Earrings'', ''Yurigokoro'', and the NHK asadora ''Hanako to Anne''. Career At age 16, her first year of high school, Yoshitaka join ...

(吉高由里子), a Japanese actress

Fictional characters

;with the given name Yuriko * Yuriko Omega (), the commando unit of the Empire of the Rising Sun in the real-time strategy video game '' Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3'' *

Yuriko Oyama Lady Deathstrike (Yuriko Oyama), occasionally spelled "Deathstryke", is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is a foe of the X-Men, especially Wolverine (character), Wolverine. Her father Lord Dark Win ...

(ユリコ・オヤマ, also known as Lady Deathstrike), a

Marvel Comics Marvel Comics is an American comic book publishing, publisher and the flagship property of Marvel Entertainment, a divsion of The Walt Disney Company since September 1, 2009. Evolving from Timely Comics in 1939, ''Magazine Management/Atlas Co ...

villain *Yuriko Star (ユリコ), a character in the

manga Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is u ...

and anime series ''

The Irresponsible Captain Tylor is an anime series based on light novel series by Hitoshi Yoshioka, taking the title from its first volume. It was produced by some of Japan's larger studios, including Big West, Tatsunoko Productions, King Records and VAP. '' ...

'' *Yuriko Janetson is the name of the narrator's daughter in

Joanna Russ Joanna Russ (February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011) was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as ''How to Suppress Women's Writing'', as w ...

's short story "

When It Changed "When It Changed" is a science fiction short story by American writer Joanna Russ. It was first published in the anthology ''Again, Dangerous Visions''. Synopsis Janet Evason lives on Whileaway, an all-female human colony planet whose inhabitants ...

" *Yuriko Suzuhina is the name of the cross dressing version of Accelerator by Kamijou Touma in the

To Aru Majutsu no Index is a Japanese light novel series written by Kazuma Kamachi and illustrated by Kiyotaka Haimura, which has been published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint since April 2004 in a total of three separa ...

. *Yuriko Edogawa, a character from

Ultra Q is a tokusatsu science fiction kaiju series made in the tradition of Toho's many tokusatsu sci-fi/horror films. Produced in black and white by Tsuburaya Productions, this is actually the first of the long-running Ultra Series, and was broadcast ...

*Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow is a card from the

Magic: The Gathering ''Magic: The Gathering'' (colloquially known as ''Magic'' or ''MTG'') is a tabletop and digital collectable card game created by Richard Garfield. Released in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast (now a subsidiary of Hasbro), ''Magic'' was the first ...

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. *Yuriko Nishinotouin, Head of the Traditional Culture Research Club at Hyakkou Private Academy in the anime Kakegurui.

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