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Boy's nameOrigin: internationalIn Israel: hardly given today

YuriIn Hebrew: יורי · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel

With vowel points: יוּרִי

Yuri (Hebrew: יורי) is a boy's name of international origin. 5,939 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Its peak year was 1961, with 223 babies.

People in Israel
5,939
born 1949–2024
Babies in 2024
—
not in the list
Peak year
1961
223 babies
USA, 2025
88
rank #1,808

Writing and saying Yuri

In Hebrew letters the name is יורי, read right to left. Yuri is the Latin spelling recorded by our review; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms.

We have no sourced English explanation of this name yet, so we do not guess one. The Hebrew page has our Hebrew notes when there are any.

Yuri by year: Israel and abroad

How many boys out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).

Yuri: rate per 10,000, 1950–2025

per 10,000 babies of the same sex

Yuri in English-speaking countries

Yuri in each official list: latest year, count, rank and peak
Country / regionYearBabiesRankPeak
United States202588#1,8082022 (93)
United Kingdom20257#3,0212006 (14)
England and Wales20257#2,9382006 (14)
Alberta20253#1,2052015 (4)

Counts for boys. The Hebrew page for Yuri has every year and the other spellings.

Related Israeli names

Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.

Questions about Yuri

How do you write Yuri in Hebrew?

Yuri is written יורי in Hebrew (with vowel points: יוּרִי). Hebrew is read right to left.

How many people in Israel are named Yuri?

5,939 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name יורי: 5 women and 5,934 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.

Is Yuri a boy's or a girl's name?

In Israel it is almost always a boy's name: 99.9% of the people named יורי are men.

Is Yuri used outside Israel?

The name Yuri appears in the official baby name lists of English-speaking countries. In the United States 88 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,808), per the Social Security Administration. In the UK 7 in 2025 (ONS, NRS and NISRA combined).

Sources

Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.

Abroad

Counts are copied as published. We only merged accented spellings (Zoë = Zoe) and computed ranks and rates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence – Alberta.