Given name
Yury
“one who works the earth; a farmer”·“resembling a lily”
Yury is a variant of Yuriy. In Russian use, Yuriy carries the interpretation “one who works the earth; a farmer.” Yury is a variant of Yuri. One Japanese interpretation is “resembling a lily.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Yury is a variant of Yuriy. In Russian use, Yuriy carries the interpretation “one who works the earth; a farmer.” Yury is a variant of Yuri. One Japanese interpretation is “resembling a lily.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Yury is a variant of Yuri. An origin associated with Yuri is Japanese. Yury connects to the George name family through Yuriy. George reached English through Old French and Latin from the Greek name Georgios.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
Yury connects to the George name family through Yuriy. The shared background comes through George: Georgios comes from georgos, built from elements meaning “earth” and “to work.” Latin Georgius and Old French forms helped carry it into English.
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. Yury connects to the George name family through Yuriy. The history of George gives this family its wider story. Saint George gave the name a religious and legendary association; the dragon story developed in the Middle Ages. In England, George I’s accession in 1714 helped increase the name’s use beyond its earlier saintly associations.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Yury through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 207
- 17 boys · 190 girls
- Most popular year
- 1985
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2009. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 18 in 1985. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,754 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yury’s family of names
In English usage, Yury has a related form in Yuri. Yury has a related form in Yuriy.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 21
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yury
- 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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