Given name & surname
Jura
Jura is a masculine given name. It is used in Polish, Czech, and Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Jura is a diminutive of Jiří. Jiří comes from Old Czech, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Jura is an affectionate form of JURAJ. In Czech usage, Jura is a diminutive of Jiří.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1943. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jura through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 0 boys · 10 girls
- Most popular year
- 1943
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 135 as a first name in 2020; 408 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jura’s family of names
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Jura is an affectionate form of JURAJ. In English usage, Jura has a later derivative in JURAN. In Croatian usage, Jura has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Jorge.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Jura has relatives in 10 languages.
9 related names in 10 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Jura
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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Sibling ideas
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