Jurijs
given name · Latvian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jurijs is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 27th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Latvian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Ю́рий (Júrij), equivalent to George.
- UAUkraine1 in 64◐
- BYBelarus1 in 88
- RURussia1 in 91
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈243K ●
- #82 ●
- 6 ●
- Sources
- 279 ●
- 1 in 153 ◐
across 11 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
8.7M records
Official registry-verified
Moldova
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●
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Ю́рий (Júrij), equivalent to George
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #27 | 11,434,762 | 3.2M rec. | — | #11 | Юрий | 191 |
| UA Ukraine | #21 | 4,959,522 | 4.9M rec. | — | listed | Юрій | 132 |
| BR Brazil | #270 | 142,231△ | 64K rec. | 1 in 1.5K | 142K | Yuri | 195 |
| TR Türkiye | #893 | 80,315 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Юрий | 13 |
| PE Peru | #477 | 63,417 | 50K rec. | — | — | Yuri | 72 |
| IL Israel | #186 | 62,637 | 89K rec. | — | 7 | יורי | 76 |
| CO Colombia | #168 | 52,551 | 16K rec. | — | 13 | Yuri | 105 |
| BY Belarus | #20 | 48,762 | 13K rec. | — | 41 | Юрий | 73 |
| PL Poland | #200 | 39,694△ | 2K rec. | 1 in 964 | 40K | Yurii | 78 |
| VE Venezuela | #731 | 32,156 | 13K rec. | — | 1.9K | Yuri | 34 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #98 | 29,171 | 8.3K rec. | — | — | Юрий | 18 |
| MX Mexico | #767 | 28,959 | 24K rec. | — | 37 | Yuri | 125 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Latvian15K84%
- English4683%
- Norwegian Bokmål3042%
- Polish2922%
- Finnish2691%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Latvian | 15,395 | 84% |
| English | 468 | 3% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 304 | 2% |
| Polish | 292 | 2% |
| Finnish | 269 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Jurijs 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 Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2009 | 11 |
| 2010 | 13 |
| 2011 | 18 |
| 2012 | 22 |
| 2013 | 24 |
| 2014 | 32 |
| 2015 | 37 |
| 2016 | 38 |
| 2017 | 42 |
| 2018 | 46 |
| 2019 | 46 |
| 2020 | 46 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 12 years between 2009–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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●
Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 11K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 10K | #31 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 304 | #3,513 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 251 | #3,029 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 65 | #2,788 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 63 | #11,698 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 57 | #2,836 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 55 | #25,688 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 51 | #950 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 46 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 46 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 46 | — |
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 · 40 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jurijs?
- We estimate roughly 243 thousand people bear Jurijs (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jurijs have the most bearers?
- Jurijs is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled юрий.
- How common is Jurijs compared with other names?
- In Russia, Jurijs is the 27th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
- Is Jurijs a male or female name?
- Jurijs 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 Jurijs mean?
- Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Ю́рий (Júrij), equivalent to George
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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, “Jurijs” — the 27th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.