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Youri

Boys' name

Transliteration of Ю́рий

Youri has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 2004. 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 2004, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Youri, 2011

1 in 732,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Youri: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of Ю́рий

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Youri means

Youri is a transliteration of Ю́рий.

Origin, language, and formation

Youri is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ю́рий.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Youri is pronounced /ju.ʁi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Youri between 2004 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2004; its best national rank was #13,173 in 2004.

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 Youri?

Youri had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,935 births
Among boys only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Youri 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 2011 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 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Youri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Youris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Youri was born before 2004 — so the typical Youri is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10
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2000s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Youri 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 2004 (5)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,173
2004

Spellings of Youri

Youri is not the most common spelling — Yuri is, with 11.6% against Youri's 0.05%.

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.

Youri around the world

Where Youri 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.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2007
    #4,333
    in 2007
  • France
    1961–2025
    #796
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2021
    #2,989
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Youri 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
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Best rank ever
#13,173
2004
Peak year
2004
5 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Youri

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

YouelYoukiKauriYouNouriAzuriYoucefAmuriYousofYoungerYounusRauriJuriYousephKmauriKhouriYousukeEuriAuriKamuriJmauriYousafImauriTuri

Sibling names for Youri

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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