Meaning & Story
A Japanese name meaning small lily, combining the characters for small and lily flower, evoking delicate beauty and quiet elegance.
Sayuri is a lovely Japanese name that pairs two beautiful images — the smallness that makes something precious and the lily's pure, graceful beauty. In Japan it carries literary and artistic associations, and internationally it is recognized from the novel and film Memoirs of a Geisha. For a graceful, refined pet with a quietly magnetic presence, Sayuri is exquisite.