Yuri

Boy's name · #1825 in the US (2025) · 2020s wave

37% boys · 63% girls — About 63% of babies named Yuri in recent years have been girls. Yuri →

Popularity over time

Yuri reached its best rank, #1345, in 1976 and ranked #1825 in 2025. Roughly 2,500 boys have been named Yuri since 1961.

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 8 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

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#211 in Switzerland (2025) · #836 in France (2025) · #1,830 in Austria (2025) · #1,694 in Canada (2024).

Yuri Gagarin — Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space (1934–1968)
Yuri Andropov — General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1914–1984)
Yuri Nikulin — Soviet and Russian actor and clown (1921–1997)
Yuri Zhirkov — Russian footballer
Yuri Dolgorukiy — Politician (1090–1157)

Among 1,897 notable people named Yuri:

Entertainers appear 1.72× more often than among typical names — e.g. Yuri Nikulin, Soviet and Russian actor and clown (1921–1997).

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