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Juris

Boys' name

From Ancient Greek Γεώργιος; literal meaning unconfirmed

Juris has been given to 46 babies in the U.S. since 1950. 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 1951, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Juris, 1964

1 in 777,000

Juris over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Juris: meaning, origin, and history

From Ancient Greek Γεώργιος; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Juris means

Juris is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Juris is used in Latvian.

Juris comes through Ancient Greek Γεώργιος.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 46 boys were recorded with the name Juris between 1950 and 1964. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1951; its best national rank was #2,948 in 1951.

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 Juris?

Juris had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1964, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1964
1 in 777,000
5 of 3,887,460 births
Among boys only
1 in 399,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1964
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
538,918 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Juris sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1964 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 538,918 children born in 1964 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Juris. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Juriss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Juris was born before 1953 — so the typical Juris is around 72 today.

Median birth year
1953
About 72 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
89.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
46
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 89.1% of all recorded uses (41).

Is Juris 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1951 (8)
Years since peak
74
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,948
1951

Spellings of Juris

Juris is not the most common spelling — Luis is, with 30.0% against Juris'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.

Juris around the world

Where Juris 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.

  • South Australia
    1949–1985
    #449
    in 1985

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Juris by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,948
1951
Peak year
1951
8 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
1964
All-time count
46
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Juris

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

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Sibling names for Juris

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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