Girl

Yuri

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#1,533
139 girls
2015
#2,406
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Yuri: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 139 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,299 in 1987.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #1,299 in 1987; #1,533 in 2025. About 61% of babies named Yuri in 2025 were girls.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#1,533 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #1,299.

Babies in 2025
227
Since 1880
6,224
Years on record
71

Babies named Yuri, every year since 1880

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Girls Boys

Yuri: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 139 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,299 in 1987 · most girls in one year: 180 (2022).

About the name Yuri

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.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Atayal and Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Yury (207), Yuriy (207), Yuriah (183), Yori (102), Yuria (20), Yurie (17), Youri (10), Yhuri (5).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Yuri in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Yuri by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 38 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Maryland8#648—
Georgia15#708#1,767
Louisiana5#900—
North Carolina10#970—
Florida15#1,051—
Missouri5#1,078—
Indiana5#1,205—
Pennsylvania7#1,226#1,621
New Jersey5#1,349—
Illinois6#1,398—
California16#1,486#1,587
Texas12#1,901—
New York5#2,415—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025139#1,53388#1,825
2024147#1,49191#1,807
2023154#1,45491#1,786
2022180#1,31893#1,781
2021123#1,69775#1,998
2020132#1,59069#2,068
2019119#1,74488#1,775
201879#2,33181#1,871
201783#2,26785#1,803
201692#2,12755#2,386
201577#2,40661#2,232
201457#3,00462#2,203
201375#2,43744#2,713
201261#2,86341#2,904
201168#2,63759#2,230
201060#2,90253#2,400
200980#2,42347#2,661
200885#2,31758#2,289
200777#2,45549#2,563
200681#2,35241#2,831
200544#3,45830#3,387
200466#2,55530#3,284
200345#3,28938#2,671
200250#2,97526#3,448
200148#3,00622#3,839
200049#2,93823#3,637
199935#3,56822#3,586
199845#2,92819#3,844
199751#2,55526#2,979
199640#3,02630#2,588
199553#2,45526#2,846
199452#2,46421#3,324
199362#2,17530#2,508
199267#2,05832#2,361
199198#1,57433#2,225
1990103#1,51131#2,307
1989106#1,41333#2,151
198898#1,42630#2,144
1987108#1,29929#2,114
198685#1,48331#1,961
198568#1,70930#1,973
198468#1,63227#2,034
198376#1,51133#1,747
198276#1,56536#1,676
198151#2,05925#2,137
198013#5,54137#1,618
19795#11,95926#2,047
1978——24#2,067
19779#6,88925#2,007
19767#8,15144#1,345
19757#7,97622#2,133
19747#7,67514#2,797
1973——26#1,781
19726#8,28126#1,769
197110#5,54128#1,704
197011#5,05534#1,461
196910#5,05225#1,679
19688#5,64031#1,427
19675#7,84415#2,137
1966——10#2,783
1964——6#4,038
1962——9#3,037
1961——9#3,095
19287#4,189——
19266#4,845——
19245#5,890——
192312#2,915——
19227#4,440——
19216#5,094——
192010#3,338——
19195#5,554——

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).