# Yury (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/yury/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 207 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 17 / 190 (92% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 13 | 5,921 |
| 1988 | 13 | 6,276 |
| 1989 | 13 | 6,528 |
| 1990 | 8 | 10,183 |
| 1991 | 11 | 7,982 |
| 1992 | 10 | 8,730 |
| 1993 | 9 | 9,550 |
| 1996 | 5 | 15,858 |
| 1998 | 5 | 16,557 |
| 2000 | 5 | 17,612 |
| 2001 | 5 | 17,932 |
| 2002 | 6 | 15,383 |
| 2003 | 7 | 13,818 |
| 2004 | 6 | 16,061 |
| 2009 | 5 | 20,130 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 5 | 10,312 |
| 2003 | 6 | 10,871 |
| 2007 | 6 | 12,331 |

## People named Yury

- Yury Rudov, fencer (1931-2013)
- Yury Drozdov, Belarusian military personnel (1925–2017)
- Yury Baluevsky, former chief of the general staff of the armed forces of the Russian federation
- Yury Kavalyow, Belarusian footballer
- Yury Holub, Belarusian cross-country skier and biathlete
- Yury Tsapenko, artistic gymnast
- Yury Afonin, First Deputy Chairman of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
- Yuryi Liadov, Belarusian biathlete
- Yury Tsyhalka, Belarusian footballer
- Yury Rybak, Belarusian judoka
- Yury Astravukh, Belarusian footballer
- Yury Kurbyko, Belarusian footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.