Iuri
A Slavic name meaning "farmer" or earth-worker. Only about 400 men in Poland carry it, and the records show no boys given it this century: one most Poles will never meet.
Iuri Pronunciation
Iuri is pronounced YOO-ree (/ˈjuri/).
What Iuri means
Where Iuri comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Iuri belongs to the Slavic world, a close cousin of Yuri. The farmer meaning, rolnik in Polish, traces back to the Greek georgos, from ge, earth, and ergon, work. That same root gave Europe the name George and gave Poland its Jerzy.
The idea underneath is plain. Earth, and the labor it asks.
Set Iuri on a Polish class register and it would sit near Jerzy and Jurek, a spelling that leans east toward the older Slavic forms. The meaning held its place across the whole family, from soldier-saints to plain village namesakes. A person called Iuri need not farm anything; the word for the work stays folded inside the name regardless. What the name reports is simple: rolnik, one who works the ground.
How many people are named Iuri
1 in 51067 men in Poland is named Iuri. 418 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1454 among male names.
Iuri as a middle name
Iuri is a first name for 418 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 7944th, between Itayi (2) and Iurii (2).
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#7942 Issachar2
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#7943 Itayi2
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#7944 Iuri2
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#7945 Iurii2
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#7946 Ivaylo2