Juris
given name · Latin script
Meaning: derivative of the personal name Juris (Latvian) or Jura (Slavic), from Greek Georgias (see George)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 28 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Juris is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common given name.
- LVLatvia1 in 131(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 8.8K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 12Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- 1 in 131 (inferred from the name graph)
14,315 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)derivative of the personal name Juris (Latvian) or Jura (Slavic), from Greek Georgias (see George).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Juris 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #11 | 14,315 | 1 in 131 | 14K | Juris | 103 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 173K | — | Juris | 24 |
| US United States | — | 345 | 1 in 964K | 471 | Juris | 133 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 341K | listed | Juris | 56 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 450 | Juris | 14 |
| EE Estonia | #713 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Juris | 10 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 34K | listed | Juris | 21 |
| IS Iceland | — | 40 | 1 in 8.8K | 40 | — | — |
14,315 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Juris Alunānsb. 1832LVLatvian poet, publicist and linguist (1832–1864)
- Juris Hartmanisb. 1928LVLatvian computer scientist (1928–2022)
- Juris Upatnieksb. 1936LVLatvian-American physicist and inventor (born 1936), one of the inventors of the hologram
- Juris Zaķisb. 1936LVSoviet politician (1936–2017)
- Juris Silovsb. 1950LVLatvian athletics competitor (1950–2018)
- Juris Bērziņšb. 1954LVLatvian rower
- Juris Dalbiņšb. 1954LVLatvian politician
- Juris Laizānsb. 1979LVLatvian footballer
- Juris Pūceb. 1980LVLatvian politician and economist
- Juris Šicsb. 1983LVLatvian luger
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)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)46 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 471 | #43,232 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 449 | #47,272 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 402 | #55,187 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Juris mean, and where does it come from?
- derivative of the personal name Juris (Latvian) or Jura (Slavic), from Greek Georgias (see George). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Juris?
- In the etymology graph, Jorge, George and Georges are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Juris a male or female name?
- Juris is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Norway (SSB), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Finland (DVV).
- In which country does Juris have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Juris, more than in any other country we hold, 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 the name Juris?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 14,315 people named Juris, about 1 in 131 residents.
- How common is Juris compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Juris is the 11th most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jurisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Juris” — the 11th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.