Iuri

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Юрий in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 7 more, Yuri in BR Brazil, PE Peru, CO Colombia and 7 more, Yuriy in US United States, CZ Czechia, GB United Kingdom and יורי in IL Israel, LV Latvia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Iuri is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name1.6K records spelled Iuri2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, Uruguay, Italy

  Also written Iúri

• French given name760 records spelled Iuri4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, Italy

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Iúri, Ïuri

• Italian given name305 records spelled Iuri2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, Moldova

  Also written Iúri

• a separate given name162 records spelled Iuri7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Russia

  Also written Iúri, I︠u︡rĭ, I̐uri, Iu︡ri, Iurî

• Bulgarian given name64 records spelled Iuri6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Bulgaria

  Also written I︠u︡ri

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Iuri is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Latin, dative singular of iūs

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 8 years between 1960–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Yuri Dolgorukiyb. 1090RUnot in their usual nameGrand Prince of Kyiv (1095-1157)
• Yuri Andropovb. 1914RUnot in their usual nameGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1914–1984)
• Yury Vladimirovich Nikulinb. 1921RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actor and clown (1921-1997)
• Yuri Gagarinb. 1934RUnot in their usual nameSoviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space (1934–1968)
• Yury Solominb. 1935RUnot in their usual nameRussian actor (1935–2024)
• Yuri Luzhkovb. 1936RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician (1936–2019)
• Yuriy Sedykhb. 1955RUnot in their usual nameSoviet athletics competitor, hammer thrower
• Yuri Shatunovb. 1973RUnot in their usual nameRussian singer (1973-2022)
• Yury Zhirkovb. 1983RUnot in their usual nameRussian footballer
• Yuri Lodyginb. 1990RUnot in their usual nameRussian-Greek association football player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 60 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Iuri?

We estimate roughly 243 thousand people bear Iuri (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Iuri have the most bearers?

Iuri is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled юрий.

How common is Iuri compared with other names?

In Russia, Iuri is the 27th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Iuri a male or female name?

Iuri is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.