Given name & surname
Jury
“one who works the earth; a farmer”
Jury is a variant of Juri. In Slavic use, Juri carries the interpretation “one who works the earth; a farmer.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Jury is a variant of Juri. In Slavic use, Juri carries the interpretation “one who works the earth; a farmer.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1981. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jury through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 129
- 6 boys · 123 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 16 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 8 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 16 in 1983. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 376 as a first name in 2020; 2,140 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.
Jury’s family of names
In Romanian usage, Jury has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Jorge. Jury has a related form in Juri. In Italian usage, Jury has a conventional equivalent in the French form YOURI.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jury
- Jury ChechiItalian artistic gymnast (born 1969)
- Yury ZacharankaBelarusian military officer (1952-1999)
- Jury RupinUkrainian photographer (1946–2008)
- Jury VeselovRussian lugerborn 1982
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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