Sayuri

Where Sayuri comes from

The dictionaries list Sayuri as a given name — a female given name from Japanese — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1979
    First appearance
    #10,210 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2007
    Peak, #1,940
    106 babies named Sayuri — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2016
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,182.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Japanese.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Sayuri hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.