unisex name

Yuri

  • Gender Unisex
  • Syllables 2
  • Letters 4
  • Popularity Uncommon
  • Births on record 7,623

France

#828

2025 births

Yuri is a unisex name with 2 syllables. It is given to both girls and boys — about 50% of recorded births with this name are girls. In 2025 it was given to 227 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

  • Peaked in 2022, when 273 babies were given the name.
  • It has been rising over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 14,605 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1919.
  • 2 syllables, with the stress on syllable 1.

Yuri over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1910s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

1,400
'10 '20 '60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Yuri by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1910s 5
1920s 53
1960s 128
1970s 331
1980s 1,060
1990s 876
2000s 989
2010s 1,400
2020s (to 2025) 1,382

How popular is Yuri?

In 2025, Yuri was given to 227 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Where Yuri is used

France #828 50 in 2025
Ireland #865 3 in 2010
United States #1,531 227 in 2025
Canada #1,679 13 in 2024
England & Wales #3,215 7 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Yuri

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Yuri also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Yuri over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Yuri in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

Armenian
Georgi
Belarusian
Yury
Chuvash
Georgy
Estonian
Georg
Finnish
Georg
German
Georg
Italian
Giorgio
Japanese
Juri
Kazakh
Georgy
Macedonian
Georgi
Polish
Jerzy
Romanian
Gheorghe
Seediq
Juri
Serbian
Yury
Swiss German
Juri
Tajik
Georgy

Sibling names for Yuri

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Yuri — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Yuri

How popular is the name Yuri?

In 2025, Yuri was given to 227 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Is Yuri a girl's or a boy's name?

Yuri is used for both girls and boys. About 50% of recorded births with this name are girls.

How many syllables are in Yuri?

Yuri has 2 syllables.

When was Yuri most popular?

Yuri peaked in 2022, when 273 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.

Is Yuri a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Yuri currently ranks #828 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.