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Yury

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Alternate transcription of Yuriy

Yury has been given to 207 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 1985, with 18 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% girls, 8% boys all-time.

Babies named Yury, 2009

1 in 764,000

Yury over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Yury over time

In 2009, Yury went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Yury: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Yuriy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yury means

Yury is a alternate transcription of Yuriy.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Yury is used in Russian and Belarusian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈjʉ.rʲɪj/ for Yury.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yuriy.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 190 girls were recorded with the name Yury between 1981 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1985; its best national rank was #4,450 in 1985.

In the United States, 17 boys were recorded with the name Yury between 1995 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2003; its best national rank was #10,305 in 1995.

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.

How common is Yury?

Yury had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 367,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,609 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yury 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 2009 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 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yury. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yurys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yury was born before 1988 — so the typical Yury is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
56.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
190
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1980s — 56.8% of all recorded uses (108).

Is Yury 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 1985 (18)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,450
1985

Spellings of Yury

Yury is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 78.7% against Yury'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.

Where Yury is used

Across 1910–2025, Yury was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 254,171 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Yury has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yury around the world

Where Yury 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
    1959–1970
    #540
    in 1970

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

Yury 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
#4,450
1985
Peak year
1985
18 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
190
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#10,305
1995
Peak year
2003
6 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yury

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

AuryYuraniYuriahJouryZuryJuryYuriYuraNuryYurikaYurianaSuryLuxuryLauryMauryYuritziYuriannaYuritzaYurikoYureliYuricoYuriaYuritzyYurie

Sibling names for Yury

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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