Yurii
given name · Ukrainian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yurii is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 27th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Ukrainian and Polish, written in the Latin script.
- 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 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●
- Ukrainian836K80%
- Polish156K15%
- Russian11K1%
- Chinese8.3K1%
- Spanish5.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Ukrainian | 836,236 | 80% |
| Polish | 156,389 | 15% |
| Russian | 10,625 | 1% |
| Chinese | 8,287 | 1% |
| Spanish | 5,136 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 7 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 10 |
| 2023 | 45 |
| 2024 | 58 |
| 2025 | 65 |
SI SURS — resident population given names — 7 years between 2019–2025. 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 25 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 62 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Yurii?
- We estimate roughly 243 thousand people bear Yurii (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Yurii have the most bearers?
- Yurii is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled юрий.
- How common is Yurii compared with other names?
- In Russia, Yurii is the 27th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
- Is Yurii a male or female name?
- Yurii 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.
Query this name via API
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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, “Yurii” — the 27th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.