In 2025, 139 US girls were named Yuri, making it the 1,533rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 42 places from #1,491 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 147 girls named Yuri in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,299, reached in 1987. The most girls given the name in a single year was 180, in 2022. For comparison, it was #2,406 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 88 US boys were named Yuri, making it the 1,825th most common boys’ name of the year, down 18 places from #1,807 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 91 boys named Yuri in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,345, reached in 1976. The most boys given the name in a single year was 93, in 2022. For comparison, it was #2,232 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yuri in 71 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 5 babies. In all, 6,224 US babies have been given the name, 61% of them girls and 39% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,400 babies named Yuri.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,248 US girls were named Yuri; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 180. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,563 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yuri ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #648 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include George (1,497,260 babies since 1880), Jorge (140,166 babies since 1880), Jordi (3,780 babies since 1880) and Giorgio (2,183 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Yury, Yuriy and Yuriah are summarised on this page.