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Юрій
Юрій (Júrij) is a masculine given name from Old East Slavic. It is used in Ukrainian.
Russian and UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Yuri.
Meaning & origin
Юрій’s family of names
In Ukrainian usage, Юрій has a diminutive in Ю́ра. In Ukrainian usage, Юрій shares an earlier linguistic root with Георгій. In Ukrainian usage, Юрій has a conventional equivalent in the English form Yuri.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Юрій has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Slavic roots to each of them.
10 related names in 6 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
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 15
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Юрій
- Yurii AndrukhovychUkrainian writer, poet, essayist and translatorborn 1960
- Yuriy LutsenkoUkrainian politicianborn 1964
- Yuriy BilonohUkrainian shot putterborn 1974
- Yuriy VoynovSoviet footballer (1931-2003)
- Iurii ChebanUkrainian canoeistborn 1986
- Yuriy KrivtsovFrench-Ukrainian cyclistborn 1979
- Yuriy KrymarenkoUkrainian high jumperborn 1983
- Yuriy VernydubUkrainian footballerborn 1966
- Yurii KhmelnytskyHetman of Ukraine1641–1685
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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