Yuriy
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yuriy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 27th most common given name.
- ESSpain1 in 38K(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 71as Юрій
- RURussia≈1 in 113as Юрий
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yuriy itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #52 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- 1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300,000 named Юрий, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Юрий in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus, Yuri in BR Brazil, JP Japan, ES Spain, Юрій in UA Ukraine and יורי in MD Moldova.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yuriy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #27 | ≈1,300,000 est. | ≈1 in 113 | #11 | Юрий | 212 |
| UA Ukraine | #20 | ≈620,000 est. | ≈1 in 71 | listed | Юрій | 148 |
| BR Brazil | #325 | 142,231as Yuri | 1 in 1.5K | 142K | Yuri | 201 |
| JP Japan | #91 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 885 | — | Yuri | 152 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #23 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 305 | 8.9K | Юрий | 64 |
| BY Belarus | #28 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 223 | 41 | Юрий | 56 |
| MD Moldova | #49 | 9,015as Iuri | 1 in 373 | 9K | יורי | 34 |
| ES Spain | #883 | 1,309 | 1 in 38K | 1.3K | Yuri | 103 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Yuriy is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Quechua, origin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yuri Dolgorukiyb. 1090RUnot in their usual nameGrand Prince of Kyiv (1095-1157)
- Yuri Andropovb. 1914RUnot in their usual nameGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1914–1984)
- Yury Vladimirovich Nikulinb. 1921RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actor and clown (1921-1997)
- Yuri Gagarinb. 1934RUnot in their usual nameSoviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space (1934–1968)
- Yury Solominb. 1935RUnot in their usual nameRussian actor (1935–2024)
- Yuri Luzhkovb. 1936RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician (1936–2019)
- Yuriy Sedykhb. 1955RUSoviet athletics competitor, hammer thrower
- Yuri Shatunovb. 1973RUnot in their usual nameRussian singer (1973-2022)
- Yury Zhirkovb. 1983RUnot in their usual nameRussian footballer
- Yuri Lodyginb. 1990RUnot in their usual nameRussian-Greek association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.3K | #2,369 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.2K | #1,069 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 42 | #1,457 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Yuriy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 million people named Юрий in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Yuriy most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yuriy is densest in Spain — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- Is Yuriy a male or female name?
- Yuriy is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Yuriy?
- In the etymology graph, George, Yuri and Georgy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Yuriy?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,309 people named Yuriy, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
- How common is Yuriy compared with other names?
- In Russia, Yuriy is the 27th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yuriyThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yuriy” — the 27th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.