Given name & surname · also Latin
Jurij
“farmer”
Jurij is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Swedish and Slovene.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Jurij comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Slovenian usage, Jurij developed from Γεώργιος.
Jurij’s family of names
In Lithuanian usage, Jurij has a diminutive in Jukna. In Slovenian usage, Jurij shares a linguistic root with the English form George. Jurij has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Jorge.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Jurij has relatives in 13 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Jurij comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 7
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 66
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Georgecognate · English
- JorgePortuguese, Spanish
- YuriEnglish
- Jordiequivalent
- GiorgioItalian
- Joriequivalent
- Georgiosequivalent
- GeorgesFrench
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- Gevorgequivalent
- Jurgenequivalent
- JerzyPolish
- Yuryequivalent
- YouriFrench
- Georgyequivalent
- Giorgiequivalent
- Georgiequivalent
- Jyriequivalent
- Jorisequivalent
- Yegorequivalent
- Jornequivalent
- Jürgensequivalent
- Göranequivalent
- Đurađequivalent
- Єгорequivalent
- Jüriequivalent
- Jurequivalent
- Jergušequivalent
- Егорequivalent
- გიორგიequivalent
- Jürgequivalent
- Юрийequivalent
- Yrjöequivalent
- Chorcheequivalent
- Gorchequivalent
- Γεώργιοςroot · Greek, Ancient Greek
- IouriFrench
- JiříCzech
- Jureequivalent
- Jørgenequivalent
- Georgiusequivalent
- Corcequivalent
- Георгийequivalent
- Georgijeequivalent
- Jørnequivalent
- Yehorequivalent
- Jurgensequivalent
- Jyrkiequivalent
- Jörnequivalent
- Xurxoequivalent
- Đorđeequivalent
- Juergequivalent
- Jordequivalent
- Gheorgheequivalent
- Jurajequivalent
- Jörgenequivalent
- Györgyequivalent
- Георгиequivalent
- Юрыйequivalent
- Đuroequivalent
- Jurgisequivalent
And 6 more.
People named Jurij
- Jurij BrězanSorbian writer (1916-2006)
- Jurij VegaSlovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer (1754-1802)
- Jurij DalmatinCarniolan minister and translator1547–1589
- Jurij KochSorbian writerborn 1936
- Yury ShulmanBelarusian-American chess grandmasterborn 1975
- Jurij TepešSlovenian ski jumperborn 1989
- Jurij HudolinSlovene poet, writer, columnist and translatorborn 1973
- Jurij BizjakSlovene Roman Catholic bishopborn 1947
- Jurij ChěžkaSorbian author1917–1944
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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