Given name & surname · Russian
Юрий
“farmer”
Юрий (Júrij) is a masculine given name from Old East Slavic. It is used in Russian.
RussianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Ûrij.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Юрий goes back to Old East Slavic Гюрги, meaning “farmer.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Юрий’s family of names
In Lithuanian usage, Юрий has a diminutive in Jurkus. In Russian usage, Юрий shares an earlier linguistic root with Георгий. In Russian usage, Юрий has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Jorge.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Юрий has relatives in 11 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Slavic roots to each of them.
23 related names in 11 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 25
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Юрий
- Yuri GagarinSoviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space (1934–1968)
- Yuri AndropovGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1914–1984)
- Yury LuzhkovRussian politician (1936–2019)
- Yuri NikulinSoviet and Russian actor and clown (1921-1997)
- Yuri ZhirkovRussian footballerborn 1983
- Yuri DolgorukiyGrand Prince of Kyiv (1095-1157)1090–1157
- Yuriy NikiforovRussian/Ukrainian association football playerborn 1970
- Yury GazinskyRussian footballerborn 1989
- Yury of MoscowGrand prince of Moscow (1281-1325)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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