Sayuri
Sayuri is a girl name of Japanese origin, meaning Pear tree.
What Sayuri means
Pear tree.
Sayuri sits at 6 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Sayuri comes from
Japanese given names are written in kanji, and the characters chosen carry the meaning as much as the sound does. The same pronunciation can be written several different ways, each shading the sense differently, so parents pick characters as deliberately as they pick the name itself.
Sayuri is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Sayuri?
In the girl name rankings we track, Sayuri falls outside the top 100. That puts it in the broad middle ground where most names live: familiar to those who know it, uncommon enough to still feel like a choice.
The character of Sayuri
We group Sayuri under the natural world. If that is the quality drawing you to it, the theme link below collects every other name we hold in the same group.
Themes: Nature
Names like Sayuri
These share Sayuri's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Sakura — Cherry blossom.
- Hana — Flower, blossom.
- Haruka — Distant; spring.
- Kaede — Maple leaf.
- Mei — Sprout; bright.
- Midori — Green.
- Satori — Pear tree.
- Sayaha — Leaf.
- Sayuha — Leaf.
- Seriha — Leaf.
- Shiori — Pear tree.
- Yuki — Snow; happiness.