Yury

given name · Latin script

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

/ʝuɾi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Yury is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BYBelarus≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • COColombia≈1 in 4.1K
  • RURussia≈1 in 10K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈14,000 people, est.

Sources
265 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Belarus, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Yury 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 Yury is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#792≈14,000 est.≈1 in 10K—Yury226
CO Colombia#321≈12,000 est.≈1 in 4.1K11Yury92
PL Poland—5,5261 in 6.9K5.5KYury50
BY Belarus#184≈4,400 est.≈1 in 2.1K—Yury79
BR Brazil—3,6931 in 57K3.7KYury87
IL Israel—≈1,500 est.≈1 in 5.9K—Yury41
LV Latvia—5081 in 3.7K508Yury20
EE Estonia#245≈410 est.≈1 in 3K1.3KYury28

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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); the ee-stat-nimed register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)

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

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Argentina, Russia

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Iouri, Ioùri

36 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

100012001400160018002000Yuri Dolgorukiy, b. 1090Yuri Andropov, b. 1914Yury Vladimirovich Nikulin, b. 1921Yuri Gagarin, b. 1934Yury Solomin, b. 1935Yuri Luzhkov, b. 1936Yuriy Sedykh, b. 1955Yuri Shatunov, b. 1973Yury Zhirkov, b. 1983Yuri Lodygin, b. 1990
  • 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. 1921RUSoviet 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. 1935RURussian 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. 1983RURussian 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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Yury,Hi Yury, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 45 sources across 28 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What are other forms of the name Yury?
In the etymology graph, George is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Yury?
A machine transcription gives /ʝuɾi/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Yury a male or female name?
Yury 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.
In which country does Yury have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Yury in Russia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yury.
How common is the name Yury?
In Poland, the national register counted 5,526 people named Yury in 2026, about 1 in 6.9 thousand residents.
How common is Yury compared with other names?
In Russia, Yury is the 792nd most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.

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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, “Yury” — the 792nd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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