Juris

given name · Latvian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Juris is a given name, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Latvian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: derivative of the personal name Juris (Latvian) or Jura (Slavic), from Greek Georgias (see George).

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 131◐
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1M
  • ISIceland1 in 8.4K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈15K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
119 ●

5.6K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 131 ◐

Latvia

Meaning & origin●

derivative of the personal name Juris (Latvian) or Jura (Slavic), from Greek Georgias (see George).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Juris is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia#1114,315△2.9K rec.1 in 13114KJuris92
FI Finland—5716 rec.—278Juris5
PH Philippines—528448 rec.——Juris22
GB United Kingdom—512266 rec.—listedJuris46
US United States—3031.5K rec.1 in 1.1M471Juris119
EE Estonia—18847 rec.—62Juris9
SE Sweden—127△12 rec.1 in 80K127Juris14
IE Ireland—8074 rec.——Juris16
CA Canada—7464 rec.——Juris24
NO Norway—7252 rec.—450Juris12
PL Poland—72—1 in 532K72——
LT Lithuania—5743 rec.—listedJuris22

Roughly 14K people in Latvia bear this name (about 1 in 131). 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●

  • Latvian24K70%
  • English3.9K11%
  • Spanish1.1K3%
  • Finnish5892%
  • German5332%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Latvian23,80870%
English3,90511%
Spanish1,1143%
Finnish5892%
German5332%

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◐

Juris is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name10K records spelled Juris12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Latvia, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Jüris, Jueris, Jūris, Jürïs

  • Spanish given name2.4K records spelled Juris8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Latvia, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Júris, Jüris, Jūris, Juriš

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name770 records spelled Juris8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Latvia

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Icelandic

    Also written Jüris

  • Czech surname706 records spelled Juris4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, Latvia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Juriš

  • French given name606 records spelled Juris4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Latvia, United States, Congo - Kinshasa

    Also written Júris, Juriš

  • Russian given name334 records spelled Juris26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Latvia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek

    Also written Юрис, Урись, Юріс, Yuris, Урис

  • a separate given name263 records spelled Juris4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Latvia, India

    Also written Jūris, Jüris, Juriš

49 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●

Juris is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, kristietības un islāma nostāstos — kareivis moceklis, ar kura vārdu folkloras tradīcija saistīja lopkopju un daļēji zemkopju pavasara kultu reliktās pagāniskās ieražas, kā arī bagāto mitoloģisko tematiku, arī motīvu par cīņu ar pūķi

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Necils cilvēks

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Catalan, second-person singular present subjunctive of jurar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, genitive singular of jūs

    as a wordkaikki.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●

02550751002000200520102015202094 · 2019

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Juris in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199950
200049
200150
200250
200351
200452
200550
200648
200747
200849
200955
201063
201164
201261
201366
201468
201576
201680
201786
201892
201994
202092

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●

18001850190019502000Juris Alunāns, b. 1832Juris Hartmanis, b. 1928Juris Upatnieks, b. 1936Juris Zaķis, b. 1936Juris Silovs, b. 1950Juris Bērziņš, b. 1954Juris Dalbiņš, b. 1954Juris Laizāns, b. 1979Juris Pūce, b. 1980Juris Šics, b. 1983

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 46 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Juris
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—14K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—14K#15
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000471#43,232
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—450#2,711
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010449#47,272
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020402#55,187
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020303#26,834
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—278#2,869
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—127#7,257
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—109#59,446
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201994—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202092—

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 · 142 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Juris?
We estimate roughly 15 thousand people bear Juris (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Juris have the most bearers?
We estimate about 14 thousand people bear Juris in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled juris.
Where is Juris most common?
Juris is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 131 people carrying it.
How common is Juris compared with other names?
In Latvia, Juris is the 11th most common given name of 17,921 given names recorded there.
Is Juris a male or female name?
Juris 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 Juris mean?
Recorded meaning: derivative of the personal name Juris (Latvian) or Jura (Slavic), from Greek Georgias (see George).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Juris” — the 11th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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