Yuri
Feminine · “lily”
Yuri is given to both — 3,769 girls and 2,455 boys since 1880. See Yuri as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Yuri for a daughter is Japanese — 百合, the lily — and it is a different name entirely from the Russian Yuri, which is masculine and means farmer.
How old is the name Yuri?
Yuri first appears in US birth records in 1919 — 106 years ago. The typical Yuri alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 3,700 people named Yuri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yuri most popular?
Yuri peaked in 1987, reaching #1293 nationally. Today it ranks #1525, 232 places below that high. See the whole 1987 chart.
Where it comes from
From 百合 to Yuri
The story of Yuri
Yuri is an ordinary Japanese girls' name and one of a set taken from flowers — Sakura, Ayame, Sumire, Yuri. Japanese-American families have used it throughout the twentieth century, and it appears in the American registers steadily. It is in current use, and its spelling collision with the Russian masculine name is purely a fact of transliteration.
Meaning
lily
From the Japanese yuri, 'lily', written 百合 — characters meaning 'hundred' and 'join', for the many scales joined in a lily bulb. The Russian Yuri is a separate name, a form of George from the Greek georgos, 'farmer'. The two are unrelated and only coincide in Latin letters.
How the name formed
- 百合
- yuri
- Yuri
Related forms: 百合 · Yuriko · Yuri
Pronouncing Yuri
YOO-ree
Two syllables, evenly weighted in Japanese; English speakers put the stress on the first. Russian Yuri is yoo-REE with the stress at the end.
Nicknames for Yuri
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
- 1919
- Most girls named
- 2022180 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1293reached in 1987
- Change vs 2024
- −5.4%139 in 2025, from 147
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.
Yuri in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- 百合 in Japanese — transliteration
- Yuriko in Japanese — related form
- Yuri in English — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Pennsylvania.
Yuris among us
people named Yuri are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 11,563 born in 2025 was named Yuri
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 Arleta test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yuri's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Arleta climbed just as high around 1932, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Arleta's path sketches the road Yuri is walking now.
Yuri 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
Where Yuri is headed
Yuri should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Yuri beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yuri in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The lily meaning is concrete and the character etymology is genuinely beautiful.
- It belongs to a coherent family of Japanese flower names.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk in English.
- The Russian masculine Yuri is spelled identically and is far better known in the West.
- The word also names a genre of Japanese fiction, which some families will weigh.
- The stress placement differs between the Japanese and Russian readings.
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Frequently asked
- How many Yuris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,700 people named Yuri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Yuri in 2025?
- Yuri ranks #1525 among US girl names in 2025, with 139 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yuri?
- About 1 in every 11,563 US girls born in 2025 was named Yuri — 139 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yuri with classmates?
- Yuri will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Yuri
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