Yurii
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Meaning
“Ukrainian form of George: farmer”
The story
Yurii is an alternate transcription of Yuriy, the Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian form of George, and Behind the Name gives that name two enormous bearers: Yuriy Dolgorukiy, the 12th-century grand prince of Kyiv, and the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man to travel to space. The double-i ending follows Ukraine's official romanization table, the same standard that writes Андрій as Andrii and Київ as Kyiv. George at the root means a farmer, a worker of the earth, which sits well on a name whose most famous bearer left the planet entirely. The published American record carries no Yurii line of its own. A prince of Kyiv, the first man in orbit, and a spelling that follows the official table exactly.
How popular is Yurii around the world?
Yurii does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick. In Poland, 11 boys named Yurii were born in 2025, the 323rd most common name among boys that year.
Yurii is on the official records of Poland and Spain.
United States
under 5 a year
Yurii does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Poland
1 in 22,000
In Poland, 11 boys named Yurii were born in 2025, the 323rd most common name among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
First names given to children born in Poland by year of birth, 2000–2025, from the PESEL population register (Ministry of Digital Affairs); exact spellings count separately (Łukasz and Lukasz are different names), names given fewer than 5 times in a year were left off the list through 2012 and fewer than 2 times from 2013, and the register also counts children born abroad, so its yearly sums run above Poland’s live births. Shares divide by the register’s own published total for the year, never by births. Source: Ministry of Digital Affairs, PESEL register (dane.gov.pl)
Spain
1 in 40,000
In Spain, 1,113 residents are named Yurii, ranked 1,278th among men, with a mean age of 39.3 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
England and Wales
last on record 2024
Yurii is not on the 2025 record for England and Wales, where spellings under 3 in a year are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 5 in a year, too few to chart.
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Not on the record in Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Scotland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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