Ürí

given name · Latin script

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

Ürí is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Medieval Latin Uronia, possibly from Latin ora (“edge, brim”), or from the pre-Roman substrate hydronym *wer (“water”) + the Latin suffix -n-. More at Uri.

rarermore common
  • KRSouth Korea≈1 in 6.4Kas 우리(inferred from the name graph)
  • PLPoland1 in 134K
  • USUnited States1 in 182K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ürí itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

South Korea (inferred from the name graph)

≈8,100 named 우리, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
45 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 134K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

우리Hangul(measured from records)
WooriLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled 우리 in KR South Korea and Wooree in US United States.

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

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Ürí: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Ürí
  1. Medieval LatinUronia(measured from records)
  2. Latinora“edge“edge, brim”(measured from records)

From Medieval Latin Uronia, possibly from Latin ora (“edge, brim”), or from the pre-Roman substrate hydronym *wer (“water”) + the Latin suffix -n-. More at Uri.

Sources 7

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary
  • Biblical Names Compiled Database
  • Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ürí counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ürí is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KR South Korea≈8,100 est.≈1 in 6.4K—우리45
US United States1,8231 in 182K1.6KWooree45
PL Poland2861 in 134K286——
BR Brazil2371 in 893K237——
ES Spain951 in 526K95—1
LV Latvia101 in 188K11——
GY Guyana31 in 250K3——

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ürí is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, United States, Spain, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Uri, Urí, Ürï, Urï, Üřï

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ürí under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ürí mean, and where does it come from?
From Medieval Latin Uronia, possibly from Latin ora (“edge, brim”), or from the pre-Roman substrate hydronym *wer (“water”) + the Latin suffix -n-. More at Uri. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 5 other sources.
Is Ürí a male or female name?
Ürí is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Ürí have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 8.1 thousand people named 우리 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Ürí most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ürí is densest in Poland — about 1 in 134 thousand people — even though South Korea holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ürí?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,823 people named Ürí in 2020, about 1 in 182 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Ürí”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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