Yury — unisex name
190 babies named Yury in U.S. Social Security records since 1981, with the highest year being 1985. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
57% of everyone ever named Yury was born in this single decade.
18 babies were named Yury in 1985 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Yury
The Social Security Administration has registered 190 babies named Yury between 1981 and 2009, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Yury currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1985, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Yury is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 17 additional births since 1995.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Yury performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 108 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Yury shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 63 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Yury in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Yury in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 190 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Yury at a glance
Last recorded 2009Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Yury popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2009–1981
- Peak year (1985)
- 18
- Annual births at peak — across 29 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2009.
190 total births across 29 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1985 with 18 births in a single year.
Yury popularity over time — boys
17 total births recorded since 1995 (Yury as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Yury accounts for 8% of total recorded use across both genders.
Yury by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 108 births that decade — 57% of Yury's all-time total
Yury decade highlights
- Peak decade 108 births
- Runner-up 48 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Yury's strongest decade
108 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 57% of all-time use.
Yury by state
Where Yury concentrates geographically — total births since 1981
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 63 | 33.2% |
63 of 190 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 33.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 33.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1981–2009 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.