Yurem
Masculine
Yurem is one of the small number of names in this collection with no documented history at all. It appears in Mexican records in the 1990s, spreads through Mexican-American families, and every etymology offered for it is a guess made after the fact.
How old is the name Yurem?
Yurem first appears in US birth records in 2007 — 18 years ago. The typical Yurem alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 900 people named Yurem are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yurem most popular?
Yurem peaked in 2007, reaching #955 nationally. Today it ranks #6446, 5,491 places below that high. See the whole 2007 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Yurem
Mexican naming has been unusually inventive since the 1980s, and it has its own toolkit, quite unlike the American one: initial Y for a J or an I, endings borrowed from Nahuatl-looking shapes, compressions of longer religious names, and blends of parents' names. Yurem fits inside that toolkit without matching any single one of its patterns, which is why it resists explanation. The name appears in Mexican and Mexican-American records from the 1990s, reaches its best United States year in 2007, and stays uncommon; a Mexican child actor of the name was visible on television in exactly those years. What is honest to say is that the name is Mexican, recent, and made rather than inherited, and that the Jerusalem story attached to it on naming sites has nothing behind it.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is established. The most-repeated suggestion connects it to Yerushalayim, the Hebrew name of Jerusalem, by heavy shortening, and there is no evidence for that beyond the shared initial sound. Others read it as a coinage or as a variant of Yuri. Given how recently and how locally the name appears, a Mexican coinage is the most likely account, and it would have no meaning.
Pronouncing Yurem
YOO-rem
Two syllables with the stress on the first in Mexican Spanish. The Spanish r is tapped, which is the one detail English speakers do not reproduce.
Nicknames for Yurem
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2007
- Most boys named
- 2007206 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #955reached in 2007
- Change vs 2024
- +18.2%13 in 2025, from 11
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Yurem in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yurem in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Yurems among us
people named Yurem are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 131,390 born in 2025 was named Yurem
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Tina test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yurem's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Tina climbed just as high around 1967, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Tina's path sketches the road Yurem is walking now.
Yurem sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Yurem beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yurem in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Five letters, two syllables, and no spelling difficulty in Spanish or English.
- Genuinely rare in the United States while being current in Mexico.
- Reads as modern without belonging to any crowded rhyme family.
- The Jerusalem etymology circulates widely and is not supported.
- Almost no American outside Mexican communities will have met it.
- It has no meaning to pass on, which is worth deciding about in advance.
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Masculine · #6446 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Yurems are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Yurem are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Yurem in 2025?
- Yurem ranks #6446 among US boy names in 2025, with 13 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yurem?
- About 1 in every 131,390 US boys born in 2025 was named Yurem — 13 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yurem with classmates?
- Yurem will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Yurem
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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