Yuri
Yuri is given to both girls and boys: 139 girls and 88 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,533 among girls’ names and #1,825 among boys’, #2,039 among all names counting both); 6,224 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Yuri every year since 2019.
An estimated 6,020 Americans named Yuri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 7 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yuri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yuri mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Yuri is “a female given name from Japanese.” Its etymology gives the sense “George” (Ю́рий).
Also “a transliteration of the Russian male given name Ю́рий (Júrij), equivalent to George.”
From Russian Ю́рий (Júrij, “George”). Doublet of George.
/ˈjʊɹi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yuri?
#1,533 among girls’ names, 2025
Yuri rose from #2,406 in 2015 to #1,533 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 43.1 to 86.5 per million.
273 babies in 2022, the peak
Yuri peaked in 2022, when 273 babies were given it (180 girls, #1,318 among girls’ names). The 227 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 83% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 139 | #1,533 | 88 | #1,825 |
| 2024 | 147 | #1,491 | 91 | #1,807 |
| 2023 | 154 | #1,454 | 91 | #1,786 |
| 2022 | 180 | #1,318 | 93 | #1,781 |
| 2021 | 123 | #1,697 | 75 | #1,997 |
| 2020 | 132 | #1,590 | 69 | #2,068 |
| 2019 | 119 | #1,744 | 88 | #1,775 |
| 2018 | 79 | #2,331 | 81 | #1,870 |
| 2017 | 83 | #2,267 | 85 | #1,803 |
| 2016 | 92 | #2,127 | 55 | #2,386 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 77 | #2,406 | 61 | #2,232 |
| 2014 | 57 | #3,002 | 62 | #2,201 |
| 2013 | 75 | #2,437 | 44 | #2,711 |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,862 | 41 | #2,902 |
| 2011 | 68 | #2,636 | 59 | #2,229 |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,901 | 53 | #2,399 |
| 2009 | 80 | #2,422 | 47 | #2,660 |
| 2008 | 85 | #2,317 | 58 | #2,288 |
| 2007 | 77 | #2,455 | 49 | #2,563 |
| 2006 | 81 | #2,352 | 41 | #2,830 |
| 2005 | 44 | #3,454 | 30 | #3,383 |
| 2004 | 66 | #2,552 | 30 | #3,280 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,285 | 38 | #2,667 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,971 | 26 | #3,443 |
| 2001 | 48 | #3,002 | 22 | #3,834 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,934 | 23 | #3,631 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,565 | 22 | #3,581 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,925 | 19 | #3,840 |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,552 | 26 | #2,974 |
| 1996 | 40 | #3,021 | 30 | #2,583 |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,450 | 26 | #2,841 |
| 1994 | 52 | #2,459 | 21 | #3,318 |
| 1993 | 62 | #2,170 | 30 | #2,502 |
| 1992 | 67 | #2,053 | 32 | #2,356 |
| 1991 | 98 | #1,568 | 33 | #2,219 |
| 1990 | 103 | #1,507 | 31 | #2,302 |
| 1989 | 106 | #1,410 | 33 | #2,145 |
| 1988 | 98 | #1,425 | 30 | #2,139 |
| 1987 | 108 | #1,298 | 29 | #2,110 |
| 1986 | 85 | #1,483 | 31 | #1,959 |
| 1985 | 68 | #1,708 | 30 | #1,972 |
| 1984 | 68 | #1,632 | 27 | #2,033 |
| 1983 | 76 | #1,511 | 33 | #1,746 |
| 1982 | 76 | #1,565 | 36 | #1,675 |
| 1981 | 51 | #2,059 | 25 | #2,136 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,540 | 37 | #1,618 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,956 | 26 | #2,047 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 24 | #2,067 | |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,887 | 25 | #2,007 |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,149 | 44 | #1,345 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,974 | 22 | #2,132 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,673 | 14 | #2,795 |
| 1973 | under 5 | 26 | #1,781 | |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,279 | 26 | #1,769 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,539 | 28 | #1,703 |
| 1970 | 11 | #5,054 | 34 | #1,460 |
| 1969 | 10 | #5,051 | 25 | #1,678 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,639 | 31 | #1,426 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,843 | 15 | #2,136 |
| 1966 | under 5 | 10 | #2,782 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 6 | #4,037 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 9 | #3,036 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 9 | #3,094 | |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,187 | under 5 | |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,843 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,888 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,914 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,438 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | 6 | #5,092 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,337 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,552 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Yuri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,224 Americans recorded as Yuri, 61% are girls and 39% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Yuri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yuri, and how old are they?
6,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 6,224 Americans ever recorded as Yuri. The median Yuri alive today is 18 years old; half are between 7 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 10,734 people named Yuri (5,508 women and girls, 5,226 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,736 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 19 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 436 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,630 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,510 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,420 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Yuri born?
The states with the most babies named Yuri are California, Georgia and Florida, with 44% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 24 | #1,486 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 23 | #708 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 22 | #1,051 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,901 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #1,226 | 0.8× |
| New York | 10 | #2,415 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #970 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 8 | #648 | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,398 | 0.4× |
Where Yuri is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yuri is most over-represented in California: since 1919 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Yuri with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,210 babies since 1880, Yuri is the second most given (41% of them). In 2025 it was given to 227 of their 899 babies (25%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Yuri
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Yuri and names like it
- Compare Yuri and YaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYuri peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yuri since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Yuri: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Yuri.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yuri alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.