Juraj
given name · Croatian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Juraj is a given name, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. In Slovakia it is the 10th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Slovak, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Latin Georgius, from Ancient Greek Γεώργιος (Geṓrgios).
- SKSlovakia1 in 94◐
- HRCroatia1 in 720
- CZCzechia1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈277K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 164 ●
- 1 in 146 ◐
across 13 countries
recorded for this name
57K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jerzy in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 6 more and Jura in FI Finland.
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●
- LatinGeorgius●
- Ancient GreekΓεώργιοςGeṓrgios●
From Latin Georgius, from Ancient Greek Γεώργιος (Geṓrgios).
Sources 1
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 261,691△ | 60 rec. | 1 in 146 | 262K | Juraj | 18 |
| SK Slovakia | #10 | 26,003 | 2.5K rec. | — | 113 | Juraj | 164 |
| HR Croatia | #139 | 5,869 | 28K rec. | 1 in 720 | 5.9K | Juraj | 97 |
| CZ Czechia | #278 | 4,484△ | 1K rec. | 1 in 2.4K | 4.5K | Juraj | 97 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,869 | 2.5K rec. | — | 4 | Jerzy | 64 |
| US United States | — | 2,845 | 18K rec. | 1 in 117K | 2.8K | Jerzy | 134 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,692 | 1.5K rec. | — | 3 | Jerzy | 64 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,056△ | 31 rec. | 1 in 9.7K | 1.1K | Juraj | 9 |
| CA Canada | — | 760 | 686 rec. | — | 1 | Jerzy | 39 |
| DE Germany | — | 726 | 648 rec. | — | 1 | Juraj | 71 |
| NO Norway | — | 422△ | 38 rec. | 1 in 13K | 1.2K | Juraj | 13 |
| AT Austria | — | 332 | 115 rec. | — | 35 | Juraj | 38 |
Roughly 262K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 146). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Croatian52K47%
- Slovak28K25%
- Czech24K22%
- English2.4K2%
- German1.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Croatian | 51,734 | 47% |
| Slovak | 27,840 | 25% |
| Czech | 24,125 | 22% |
| English | 2,387 | 2% |
| German | 1,110 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 35 |
| 2000 | 37 |
| 2001 | 35 |
| 2002 | 36 |
| 2003 | 36 |
| 2004 | 38 |
| 2005 | 37 |
| 2006 | 38 |
| 2007 | 38 |
| 2008 | 39 |
| 2009 | 40 |
| 2010 | 37 |
| 2011 | 35 |
| 2012 | 34 |
| 2013 | 37 |
| 2014 | 36 |
| 2015 | 40 |
| 2016 | 42 |
| 2017 | 45 |
| 2018 | 50 |
| 2019 | 50 |
| 2020 | 50 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Juraj Križanićb. 1618HRCroatian Catholic missionary, theologist, linguist and pan-Slavist (1618-1683)
- Juraj Jánošíkb. 1688SKSlovak outlaw
- Josip Juraj Strossmayerb. 1815HUCroatian Roman Catholic bishop, benefactor and politician (1815–1905)
- Juraj Herzb. 1934CZSlovak actor, director and scriptwriter (1934-2018)
- Juraj Jakubiskob. 1938SKSlovak director (1938–2023)
- Juraj Kukurab. 1947SKSlovak actor and singer
- Juraj Cintulab. 1953SKSlovak writer, attacker against prime minister Robert Fico
- Juraj Nvotab. 1954SKSlovak actor and director
- Juraj Kuckab. 1987SKSlovak association football player
- Juraj Slafkovskýb. 2004SKSlovak ice hockey 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●
Attested in 36 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 5.9K | #184 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 4.9K | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 4.5K | #275 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 2.2K | #304 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 2.2K | #304 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 252 | #4,024 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 210 | #37,052 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 183 | #3,667 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 136 | #505 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 135 | #512 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 130 | #546 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 125 | #554 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 102 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Juraj?
- We estimate roughly 277 thousand people bear Juraj (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Juraj have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 262 thousand people bear Juraj in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled juraj.
- How common is Juraj compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Juraj is the 10th most common given name of 9,629 given names recorded there.
- Is Juraj a male or female name?
- Juraj 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.
- What does the name Juraj mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Latin Georgius, from Ancient Greek Γεώργιος (Geṓrgios).
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Juraj” — the 10th most common given name in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.