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Jura

Girls' name

Diminutive of Jiří

Jura has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1943. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1943, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Jura, 2014

1 in 741,000

Jura over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jura: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Jiří

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jura means

Jura is a diminutive of Jiří.

Origin, language, and formation

Jura is used in Czech and Serbo-Croatian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jiří, George and Juraj.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Jura is pronounced [ˈjura].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Jura between 1943 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1943; its best national rank was #5,007 in 1943.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jura?

Jura had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 741,000
5 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jura sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jura. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Juras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jura was born before 1943 — so the typical Jura is around 82 today.

Median birth year
1943
About 82 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5
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1940s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Jura rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1943 (5)
Years since peak
82
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#5,007
1943

Spellings of Jura

Jura is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 18.7% against Jura's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Jura around the world

Where Jura ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Scotland
    2014–2025
    #539
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1975–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jura by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,007
1943
Peak year
1943
5 that year
First recorded
1943
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jura

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Jura

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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