Yuri
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yuri is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 27th most common given name. In Portuguese, recorded as alternative form of Iúri.
- JPJapan≈1 in 885(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.5K
- UAUkraine≈1 in 71as Юрій
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 Yuri 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #52 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 885 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300,000 named Юрий, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Юрий in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus, Юрій in UA Ukraine and יורי in MD Moldova.
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)
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Ю́рий (Júrij), equivalent to George.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Yuri is read(measured from records)
Yuri is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese33%
alternative form of Iúri
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish28%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Yuri in Spanish.
- Japanese11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Yuri in Japanese.
- English10%
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Ю́рий (Júrij), equivalent to George.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yuri 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #27 | ≈1,300,000 est. | ≈1 in 113 | #11 | Юрий | 212 |
| UA Ukraine | #20 | ≈620,000 est. | ≈1 in 71 | listed | Юрій | 148 |
| BR Brazil | #325 | 142,231 | 1 in 1.5K | 142K | Yuri | 201 |
| JP Japan | #91 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 885 | — | Yuri | 152 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #23 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 305 | 8.9K | Юрий | 64 |
| BY Belarus | #28 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 223 | 41 | Юрий | 56 |
| MD Moldova | #49 | 9,015as Iuri | 1 in 373 | 9K | יורי | 34 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Yuri is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Korean, King of Koguryŏ, 19 BC-AD 18.
as a nameKorea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
In Korean, Silla king; ruled 24–57.
as a nameKorea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
In German, männl. Vom., englische Schreibweise von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Contadino
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yuri Dolgorukiyb. 1090RUGrand Prince of Kyiv (1095-1157)
- Yuri Andropovb. 1914RUGeneral 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. 1934RUSoviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space (1934–1968)
- Yury Solominb. 1935RUnot in their usual nameRussian actor (1935–2024)
- Yuri Luzhkovb. 1936RURussian politician (1936–2019)
- Amami Yūkib. 1967JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actress
- Yuri Shatunovb. 1973RURussian singer (1973-2022)
- Yury Zhirkovb. 1983RUnot in their usual nameRussian footballer
- Yuri Lodyginb. 1990RURussian-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(measured from records)
Attested in 75 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 142K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 140K | #237 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 75K | #586 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 19K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.9K | #237 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 7 | #3,303 |
Reference works 3
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Yuri come from?
- A transliteration of the Russian male given name Ю́рий (Júrij), equivalent to George. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Yuri a male or female name?
- Yuri 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 Yuri mean?
- In Portuguese, alternative form of Iúri
- What are other forms of the name Yuri?
- In the etymology graph, Yuriy, Georgy and Georgiy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Yuri have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 million people named Юрий in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Yuri?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 142,231 people named Yuri in 2022, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Yuri compared with other names?
- In Russia, Yuri is the 27th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yuriThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Yuri” — the 27th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.